{"id":105834,"date":"2020-08-19T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=105834"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:23:31","slug":"pilot-killed-in-helicopter-crash-fighting-the-hills-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=105834","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Killed in Helicopter Crash Fighting the Hills Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coalinga, CA&#8230;This morning a Call When Needed (CWN) helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in western Fresno County. The Bell UH-1H helicopter was on a water dropping mission on the Hills Fire, approximately 9 miles south of the City of Coalinga.  Air and ground resources responded immediately to the crash site. The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office SAR team was requested to the area of S. Lost Hills Road and Sutter Ave. in Coalinga.  The pilot was the only person aboard the helicopter and did not survive the incident.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/calfireban2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/calfireban2.jpg 355w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/calfireban2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/calfireban2-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation and CAL FIRE is assisting.  For further information on the investigation please contact:<br \/>\nZoe Keliher (NTSB)<br \/>\nZoe.keliher@ntsb.gov<br \/>\n310-489-0808<\/p>\n<p>### <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coalinga, CA&#8230;This morning a Call When Needed (CWN) helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in western Fresno County. The Bell UH-1H helicopter was on a water dropping mission on the Hills Fire, approximately 9 miles south of the City of Coalinga. Air and ground resources responded immediately to the crash site. The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/calfireban2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}