A helicopter crashed into a radio tower in Houston on Sunday night, falling to the ground in a fireball and killing people onboard including a child, officials said.
The NY Times reports The Houston Fire Department said the accident happened in the city’s Greater East End neighborhood at 7:54 p.m. Videos circulating on social media appeared to show the aftermath.
The website of Radio Insight reports that the tower served several broadcast stations including Univision FM stations KLTN and KAMA, as well as Pueblo de Galilea station KCOH.
Four people were aboard the helicopter when it struck the tower or a cable connected to it, J. Noe Diaz, Houston’s chief of police, said at a news conference. There were no casualties on the ground.
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After the radio tower collapsed, a fire the size of two to three city blocks ignited in a grass field, fire officials said. Emergency responders were at the scene within minutes, Fire Department Chief Thomas Munoz said at the news conference. The radio tower was the only structure on the ground that was impacted by the crash, officials said.
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