PERRIS, CA — A person skydiving was killed Monday after crashing into a home in Perris, fire officials say.
CAL FIRE/Riverside County Firefighters responded to a single report of a skydiver that went down on the roof of a residence, located at the 200 block of Caldera Street in Quail Valley.
The first arriving engine company reported one patient on top of the roof of a residential structure.
A witness who lives near the scene told KTLA that the skydiver’s parachute did not open.
Firefighters on scene requested a fire truck to assist with access to the roof to recover the body.
#BREAKING Our @abc7robmcmillan is reporting outside a Perris home where a skydiver has crashed through a home’s roof & now believed to be dead… #abc7eyewitness pic.twitter.com/BzyHh5NJqV
— Marc Cota-Robles (@abc7marccr) January 23, 2018
Skydiver dies after crashing into roof of Perris home pic.twitter.com/Z7UmV7HErr
— Rob McMillan (@abc7robmcmillan) January 23, 2018
#breakingnews in Perris where a skydiver plunged through the roof of a house. The skydiver was killed. @abc7robmcmillan is there. pic.twitter.com/Q9M0m008lR
— Marc Brown (@abc7marc) January 23, 2018
KTLA reported: Perris is the site of Skydive Perris, which operates at the Perris Valley Airport. The Caldera Street home is less than 2 miles from the airport.
KTLA reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration, which investigates parachute malfunctions, but the agency is not responding due to the federal government shutdown, according to an automated email reply.
The identity of the victim was not released.
