Copter Crash Injures 1, Sets Brush Fire
A helicopter with three people aboard crashed in flames Thursday morning in the San Bernardino National Forest, but there was only one minor injury, authorities said.
A half-acre brush fire caused by the 10:30 a.m. crash was extinguished, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Ted Yarbrough. The crash site was 80 miles east of Los Angeles.
The helicopter was ferrying workers from Enterprise Electronics in Commerce to a radio repeater site at the 5,800-foot level of Little San Gorgonio Peak when it crashed, said Yarbrough. The three people aboard walked away from the wreckage, he said.
Dan Harris, owner of the Harris radio company in Simi Valley, was in fair condition “with no major injuries” at Loma Linda University Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Jayne McGill said.
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