Climate
A Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane helicopter fighting the Widemouth 2 wildfire in Utah's Fishlake National Forest crashed, killing the two crew members aboard, who worked for Helicopter Transport Services. The crash sparked a new fire that merged with the existing blaze, which has burned nearly 174 square miles and was around 19 percent contained. The Widemouth 2 fire began from a lightning strike on July 27 and is on pace to become Utah's largest wildfire this year.
LL outlets (Guardian, NYT, Al Jazeera) cover the crash as a straightforward breaking news/disaster story, tracking the death toll confirmation, fire size, containment percentage, and add context on the fire's scale and a prior fatal Utah wildfire incident this summer; Al Jazeera includes official quotes from a deputy incident commander and the Utah governor expressing condolences.
No centrist outlet in our set has published this story.
LR (New York Post) frames the story similarly as breaking news, tracking crash details, fire size/containment, and pilot deaths, while also embedding it within broader roundup coverage of other Western wildfires (Mount Rainier, Spokane, Oregon, British Columbia) and a bulldozer operator's death, giving the story a wider regional-disaster framing.