From the Joliet Fire Department Facebook page:
**AIRPLANE CRASH/STRUCTURE FIRE**
-Station 9’s run area
-Box alarm
-Engine 10
-Engine 8
-Engine 7
-Engine 5
-Quint 9
-Ambulance 8
-Ambulance 9
-Ambulance 7-Airplane crash (unknown size) into a house. Hampton St and Bedford St
-Units currently working and unknown injuries.
-More details to come when available
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Joliet Fire Department Facebook page
Excerpts from NBCChicago.com:
A pilot was killed when a small plane crashed in a southwest Chicago suburb Thursday morning, burning a home in the residential area, according to authorities.
The Joliet Police Department said the plane crashed in the 1800 block of Hampton Court near Chestnut Hill Road and Bedford Drive in Plainfield around 11:15 a.m.
No one was inside the home at the time of the crash and the Federal Aviation Administration said there were no injuries on the ground. It remained unclear how many people were inside the plane, but the city manager for Joliet, said the pilot was killed.
Footage of the scene showed the house badly burned on one side with debris scattered across the street. Officials said they believe fuel from the plane sparked the fire, but an investigation remained ongoing.
