Sad news indeed. According to
this story, excerpted below, it was actually a Bell 204B, which matches the operators listed aircraft fleet.
Firefighting chopper crashes
Pilot dies aboard Alberta firm's helicopter
By DAN PALMER, EDMONTON SUN
One person is dead after a helicopter operated by an Alberta company crashed at a landing pad yesterday as it was fighting a raging British Columbia forest fire, say authorities.
"There was only one person on board, and that person is deceased," said Capt. James Pierotti of the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria.
Pierotti didn't know the gender of the person on board.
Gemini Helicopters - which operated the chopper and has a head office in Grande Prairie, 456 km northwest of Edmonton - wouldn't comment about who was on board or if anyone was deceased.
Gemini Helicopters spokesman David Steer told The Sun that the Bell 204 helicopter crashed around 11:15 a.m. B.C. time at a heli-pad near Bonaparte Lake, about 80 km southeast of 100 Mile House.
The crash happened as the helicopter was preparing to get a bucket of water, said Steer.
The chopper was fighting the Bonaparte Lake fire, north of Kamloops.