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A combatant pitchy crashed into a upland Saturday day successful Yakima County, Washington, sparking a wildfire, section officials said.
The clang occurred astatine astir noon adjacent Rimrock Lake successful Washington state. The aviator sustained insignificant injuries aft ejecting from the level and was transported to the hospital, the Yakima County Sheriff's Office said.
Smoke rises from the country of a combatant pitchy clang successful Yakima County, Washington. June 13, 2026.
Naches Fire Department
The clang sparked a occurrence successful the area, prompting the evacuation of campers arsenic firefighters worked to suppress it, officials said.
The U.S. Marine Corps told CBS affiliate KIRO-TV successful a connection that the crashed pitchy was an F/A-18 Hornet "assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing."
The pitchy "experienced a non-fatal aviation mishap portion conducting regular grooming astir 55 miles southeast of Seattle, Washington," the connection read.
The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing is based successful Marine Corps Air Station Miramar successful San Diego, California.
The Naches Fire Department said the occurrence was being suppressed by helicopters and astatine slightest 1 motor from the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest crew.
Helicopters and astatine slightest 1 motor from the U.S. Forest Service's Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest besides responded. The size of the blaze was unclear.
The origin of the clang is nether investigation, officials said.
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