On Friday, January 25, 2008 at 11:01 PM, 6 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 2LAFD Rescue Ambulances, 1 Heavy Rescue, 1 EMS Battalion Captain, and 1 Battalion Chief Officer Command Team, under the direction of Battalion Chief Randy Beaty responded to a Helicopter Crash on the S/B 110 Freeway at Century Bl. in South Los Angeles.

Firefighters arrived on the scene to discover the burning wreckage of a small, single or twin seat helicopter which had crashed in the South-Bound lanes of the Harbor Freeway. The fire was quickly extinguished, unfortunately one individual was found deceased in the fuselage of the aircraft. Debris from the crash littered the freeway for several hundred feet around the crash site. No other injuries were reported. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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Submitted by Ron Myers, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department