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‘Heartbreaking’: Three Americans killed in plane crash while battling Australian fires

By Spencer Neale
Published January 23, 2020 12:45pm ET
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‘Heartbreaking’: Three Americans killed in plane crash while battling Australian fires
In this undated hand out photo from the Rural Fire Service, a C-130 Hercules plane called ÅgThorÅh drops water during a flight in Australia. Officials in Australia on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, searched for a water tanker plane feared to have crashed while fighting wildfires. | (HOGP/AP)

Three American firefighters died after their plane crashed in the Snowy Mountains south of Sydney while attempting to put out fires that have ravaged Australia since September.

Contact was lost with the plane around 1:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, and the names of the firefighters have yet to be released.

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