Three people have died and two others taken to hospital after a news helicopter crashed in suburban Los Angeles, fire authorities in the city have said.<\/p>\n
NBC Los Angeles confirmed the helicopter was its NewsChopper4, which also operated for Telemundo 52, and was in the area on Tuesday reporting on a deadly bus crash.<\/p>\n
The aircraft went down just before 19:00 local time (01:00 BST) between two commercial buildings in the Chatsworth neighbourhood, a Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) spokesperson told the BBC.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said it was not yet known how many people were onboard, and no victim names had been released. <\/p>\n
Fire from the crash spread to four vehicles and two storage containers, and more than 70 firefighters were deployed to the scene, the LAFD said.<\/p>\n
During emotional live coverage on NBC4, veteran news anchor Colleen Williams confirmed it was the local news station’s helicopter that crashed.<\/p>\n
“We knew it was a news chopper. We knew we’d lost contact with our people out there, and we’ve just received confirmation,” Williams said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, LAFD Captain Branden Silverman told the local affiliate of the BBC’s US partner CBS: “We do have one confirmed patient that seemed to be outside of the helicopter when it crashed.<\/p>\n
“That person was declared deceased on scene,” Silverman said. <\/p>\n
Several news helicopters were in the area at the time of the incident reporting on a bus crash.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, two people were killed and six others were injured after an SUV crashed into a city bus in Chatsworth, BBC’s US partner CBS reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have died and two others taken to hospital after a news helicopter crashed in suburban Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-772205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}