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A contract aircraft company has identified the second pilot killed in the weekend crash of a firefighting helicopter in Yosemite National Park as Ryan Cutter. The Super Puma helicopter crash Sunday afternoon also killed pilot Greg King.

Two helicopter pilots were killed when their aircraft crashed Sunday afternoon while conducting water drops on a wildfire at Yosemite National Park, officials say.

A quick-moving wildfire has burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp. It's one of nearly two dozen fires burning across Northern California Wednesday.

This devastating wildfire was one of the fastest burning fires in California history, as it tore through Madera and Mariposa Counties.

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California's Creek Fire was contained on Dec. 24, 2020, after destroying nearly 400,000 acres and hundreds of homes in the Sierra Nevada.

When the Rabbit Fire ignited in late September, firefighters took advantage of weather and forest conditions to allow the fire to burn in a controlled manner, rather than immediately extinguishing it.

In September 2020, soldiers with the California Army National Guard rescued hundreds of people who had been trapped near a Sierra Nevada lake by the Creek Fire. This past weekend, the helicopter crews who conducted those rescues were reunited with the survivors and honored during a Fresno State football game.

Moderate weather and well-timed rainstorms in much of California combined to curb the acreage and structures burned.

Two decades ago, the U.S. Forest Service warned that a wildfire mirroring the Caldor Fire’s progression could easily wipe Grizzly Flats off the map. The Forest Service took steps to prevent such a catastrophe, but an investigation from CapRadio and The California Newsroom found the plan fell short.