2 US firefighters killed while battling wildfire

Two firefighters were killed in the US state of Arizona while battling a wildfire which was ignited by lightning last week and has so far burned down 300 acres of land. The firefighters were killed on Saturday in a plane crash while conducting aerial reconnaissance over the fire near the Prescott National Forest, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said in a statement. "The accident occurred around noon today and involved an air attack aircraft performing aerial reconnaissance and command and control over the fire. Two crew members were on board and we are sad to report there were no survivors," Xinhua news agency quoted interstate incident information system Inciweb as saying on Saturday. The tragedy came as wildfires raged through the western regions of the US due to drought and high temperature. (IANS)

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