{"id":19302,"date":"2026-08-08T17:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/firefighting-helicopter-crash-utah-wildfire-widemouth-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:45:19","slug":"firefighting-helicopter-crash-utah-wildfire-widemouth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/firefighting-helicopter-crash-utah-wildfire-widemouth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighting Helicopter Crashes in Utah; Fate of Two Onboard Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sikorsky S-64 firefighting helicopter crashed during wildfire suppression operations in Utah, and the fate of its two occupants remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p>According to USA Today, the incident occurred near the city of Richfield, an area currently battling the &#8216;Widemouth 2&#8217; wildfire. U.S. officials have stated that ongoing fire spread and difficult access to the crash site have hindered efforts to assess the status of those onboard.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the helicopter had two crew members and that investigations into the cause of the crash have begun.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Widemouth 2&#8217; wildfire started on July 27 in central Utah and has since consumed more than 106,000 hectares, making it one of the largest recent wildfires in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A firefighting helicopter crashed near Richfield, Utah during the Widemouth 2 wildfire. The fate of the two crew members remains unknown as investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}