VICTORIA, B.C. — A Canadian waterbombing plane battling wildfires deep in British Columbia’s interior crashed on Saturday, search and rescue officials said.
Capt. Marguerite Dodds-Lepinski, the public affairs officer at the province’s Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Victoria, said it was believed that the plane had two crew members on board. Their fate is currently unknown.
Dodds-Lepinski says two search-and-rescue aircraft from Vancouver Island are en route to the crash site about 160 miles east of Vancouver.
The plane was chartered by the provincial government from Conair in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
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