A DC-9-87 twin-jet air tanker sits on the tarmac with its left engine removed Monday at the U.S. Forest Service’s Air Attack Base at Fresno Yosemite International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration reported that the airplane’s left engine failed as it took off Sunday afternoon to fight the Rough fire east of Fresno. Debris from the engine apparently fell in a neighborhood northwest of the airport as the plane returned for a successful emergency landing.
The shattered rear window of a car struck by falling debris from a twin-engine tanker. Fresno Police Crime Scene Bureau
Debris found in a Fresno neighborhood and believed to have come from a firefighting air tanker. Fresno Police Crime Scene Bureau
