Military raises death toll in C-130 wildfire crash Updated at 3:36 p.m. (AP) DENVER - The military said Tuesday four crew members died in the weekend crash of an Air Force tanker plane that was fighting a fire in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The North Carolina Air National Guard said the other two crew members were injured. The dead are Lt. Col. Paul K. Mikeal, Maj. Joseph M. McCormick, Maj. Ryan S. David and Senior Master Sgt. Robert S. Cannon. All were from North Carolina. Sunday's crash prompted the military to temporarily ground the seven remaining Air Force tankers used in firefighting. Six tankers were cleared to resume flying Tuesday. The seventh, which was also part of the North Carolina Air National Guard, returned to its home base. Wildfire-fighting C-130s grounded after deadly crash Colorado wildfires may stomp out fireworks Watch: Firefighters gain ground on Western wildfires Northern Command, which oversees the planes while they are on firefighting duty, said the one-day suspension of flights was to review safety procedures. Northern Command is responsible for the military defense of the U.S. homeland and assisting civil authorities during emergencies. It is based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. The decision to suspend the C-130 flights briefly left just 14 federally contracted heavy tankers in use during one of the busiest and most destructive wildfire seasons ever to hit the West. President Obama signed a bill last month hastening the addition of seven large tanker planes to the aerial firefighting fleet at a cost of $24 million, but the first planes won't be available until mid-August. The C-130s can be called into firefighting duty if all the civilian heavy tankers are in use or unavailable. The C-130s are loaded with a device called the Modular Airborne Firefighting System, or MAFFS. The system can drop 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant within seconds through a nozzle in a modified side door toward the rear of the plane. The military planes had been filling up with fire retardant and flying out of Peterson Air Force Base. The six active planes will continue working out of Peterson, said Maj. Kimberly Holman, a Northern Command spokeswoman. C-130 air tankers have crashed on firefighting duty before. In 2002, a privately owned civilian version of an older-model C-130 crashed in California, killing three crew members. Another aerial firefighting plane, the Lockheed P2V, has had some problems in recent months. One crashed in Utah, killing the two pilots, and another one crash-landed in Nevada. Military officials have released few details of the South Dakota crash but acknowledged some crew members were killed and others were being treated for serious injuries at a hospital in Rapid City, S.D. "There were lives lost," Lt. Col. Robert Carver of the North Carolina National Guard said Monday. South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Tuesday that two people had died in the crash. He didn't identify either victim. The family of Lt. Col. Paul Mikeal of Mooresville, N.C., said they were told early Monday that he had died in the crash. They said he was a 42-year-old married father of two and a veteran of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the major fires burning in the West: Montana: Critical fire conditions were expected Tuesday. The 292-square-mile Ash Creek Fire was 55 percent contained after burning 16 houses. The 34-square-mile Dahl fire was 95 percent contained after burning 73 homes. Wyoming: The 138-square-mile Arapaho Fire is 10 percent contained after burning an undetermined number of structures. The Oil Creek Fire blew up from 9 square miles to about 31 square miles overnight and forced the evacuation of more than 400 people. Colorado: The 28-square-mile Waldo Canyon Fire was 70 percent contained overall, and the portion within Colorado Springs was fully contained. The fire killed two people and destroyed nearly 350 homes.