Tanker plane fighting S. Dakota fire down FILE/UPI/Stephany D. Richards/US Air Firce EDGEMONT, S.D., July 2 (UPI) -- Three people were rescued after a U.S. Air Force C-130 air tanker crashed on a wildfire mission in South Dakota, officials said Monday. The Fall River County Sheriff's office said a helicopter was able to land near the plane after it went down Sunday and evacuated three people, who were transported to a Rapid City hospital for treatment, the Rapid City Journal reported. A spokesman said he couldn't provide any other information about the plane, which went down during the White Draw fire, or its crew. Rescuers were working at the crash site. The fire, about 5 miles northeast of Edgemont, had burned about 4,200 acres since it started Friday and was 30 percent contained, officials said. No homes had been threatened, InciWeb, a fire-response Web site, said. The South Dakota wildfire is one of many burning in western states. In Colorado Springs, authorities lifted evacuation orders for all but areas hardest hit by the Waldo Canyon fire, allowing residents to return to what's left of their homes Sunday, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reported. Evacuation orders remained in effect for about 3,000 of the 32,000 people forced to leave, officials said. The Waldo Canyon fire, blamed for two deaths, was about 55 percent contained after having burned more than 17,800 acres since it began more than a week ago. "Now we're beginning to look at how do we rebuild and begin the recovery," Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." But we also know that Mother Nature can be pretty fickle out there, so we're keeping ourselves very alert. The Gazette reported government environmental and health agencies were helping Colorado Springs residents displaced by the fire dispose of spoiled food by setting up disposal sites. On Sunday, more than 50 tons of food was tossed -- spoiled by the lack of power for many days. The U.S. Air Force deployed eight more C-130s to fight the wildfires in Colorado and other states, the U.S. Northern Command said in a release. The planes are equipped with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, known as MAFFS, the Pentagon said. As of Sunday, Defense Department aircraft conducted 73 air drops and discharged more than 190,000 gallons of flame retardant during wildfire missions in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota, officials said. The Waldo Canyon wildfire, already estimated to cost more than $11.1 million, is one of 11 active blazes in Colorado, CNN reported. The U.S. Forest Service warned it could be mid-July before the fire is fully under control.