One of three American crew members killed in a plane crash in  Australia when their aerial water tanker crashed while battling the country’s devastating wildfires, was a senior master sergeant and a flight engineer assigned to Hurlburt Field. The C-130 went down on Thursday killing 43-year-old Senior Master Sgt. Rick DeMorgan and two others. Although DeMorgan was considered active duty he was on terminal leave awaiting retirement and was working for a private company at the time of the crash. The Australian fires have destroyed more than 2,600 homes and burned more than 25.7 million acres – an area bigger than Indiana – and caused 31 deaths.