Going by the RFS facebook feed there's one less helicopter working the south coast fires after this afternoon, thankfully pilot reported as safe.
Aircraft incident
At around 1600hrs this afternoon, a contract helicopter working for the NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) ditched into a dam on the Far South Coast of NSW.
The waterbombing aircraft, tasked to the Clyde Mountain fire, ditched into the Ben Boyd Reservoir in the Ben Boyd National Park at Edrom, in the Bega Valley Shire.
The aircraft remains submerged however the pilot was able to free himself from the aircraft and is safely onshore.
Ambulance are responding to the scene