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LOS ANGELES, USA. — A news helicopter providing coverage for NBC4 and Telemundo 52 crashed and caught fire in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, killing three people. The helicopter was providing coverage of a separate fatal collision in which two people died.
Two of those killed in the news helicopter have been identified by NBC4 as Eliana Moreno — an air reporter and photojournalist who worked for NBC4 and Telemundo 52 — and George Marciniw, the helicopter pilot. Both were from Angel City Air, which operates NewsChopper4. The third person killed on the ground has not yet been identified by authorities.
According to Jennifer Middleton, spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department, 67 firefighters responded to the scene between two commercial buildings. The helicopter caught fire and four vehicles and two storage structures were damaged. Fire personnel found four patients at the scene — three were pronounced dead at the scene, while a fourth person, whose condition is unknown, was transported to a local hospital.
The helicopter was providing coverage of a separate fatal collision between an MTA bus and a passenger vehicle at Nordhoff Street and Ventura Boulevard, less than a mile from the helicopter crash. The fire department says eight people were involved in that collision, two of whom died. Capt. Branden Silverman said one person was ejected from the bus during the collision. Firefighters had to free several people who were trapped in the bus, while one person was trapped under the sport utility vehicle.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are investigating the helicopter crash, while the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the collision between the MTA bus and passenger vehicle.
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This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
