Several dead as small plane crashes and burns in Florida mobile home park
A small plane crashed at a Florida mobile home park on Thursday, killing several people aboard the plane and in one home, fire officials said.The pilot of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35 reported an engine failure shortly before the aircraft went down at about 7 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration reported.It crashed in the Bayside Waters mobile home park in Clearwater, hitting one home and leaving at least three homes with fire damage, although the flames were quickly doused, Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ehlers said at a news conference.
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00:05 Earlier this evening at 1908, 7.08 PM, we received for
00:10 the fire department report of a structure fire here in Bayside Estates,
00:16 which is known for a long time as Japanese Gardens.
00:21 It's a very large mobile home park.
00:25 Simultaneously, the ARF units or the aircraft units out of Clearwater St.
00:31 Pete Airport also received a note of response regarding a aircraft that had
00:36 some trouble.
00:37 During that conversation with their tower, their tower lost off a radar and
00:42 at three miles north of the runway.
00:45 And some of the ARF units responded this way when they saw the fire.
00:49 Our units got on scene at 19, I'm sorry, so
00:54 1908, 1915 or 715 was our initial units on scene and
01:00 the aircraft response vehicles were right behind them.
01:03 That's critical because those aircraft response vehicles are designed to put
01:07 larger fires out.
01:08 And that was a critical component of maintaining this mobile home park
01:13 to what we kept it to.
01:16 The crews did a phenomenal job in getting the fire knocked down very quickly.
01:19 And it ensued several structures,
01:23 three definitely that had some fire damage,
01:26 a fourth one with possibility of fire damage.
01:29 The aircraft was found in the one structure,
01:34 predominantly right in that one structure.
01:36 We are working through right now the element of trying to get to
01:43 the hot spots but also to try and get to fatalities.
01:48 I can confirm that we have several fatalities both from the aircraft and
01:52 within the mobile home.
01:54 We're still working to make sure that there is no additional and
01:58 it's limited to what we do know right now.
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