Three American crew members have died in Australia after an air tanker crashed in the state of New South Wales, where fires continue to burn out of control.
The water-bombing tanker had been chartered by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service , state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said in a news conference on Thursday. It was called in to fight a bushfire near the town of Cooma, in the state's southeast.The Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council told CNN the casualties were American. The crew members belonged to Coulson Aviation, an aerial firefighting company that owned the aircraft contracted to the NSW RFS.
Contact was lost with a Large Air Tanker which was working in the Snowy Monaro area. #nswrfs #nswfires pic.twitter.com/i6u1mlZsZ0 — NSW RFS January 23, 2020 The cause of the crash is not yet clear.Traci Weaver, a United States public information officer with firefighting teams on the ground, called the crash a"heartbreaking" incident."We're just here taking care of our folks," she told CNN."And it hits close to home when it's Americans too -- as tight a family as we are in the firefighting community -- it's just hard.
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