A small plane has plunged into a Florida trailer park where authorities said they rushed to check for an unknown number of victims in the chaotic aftermath.
The small plane struck two homes at the Mar-Mak Colony Club in Palm Springs just before 6pm on Tuesday.
Palm Beach Country Fire Rescue Captain Albert Borroto said that 911 callers had reported a low-flying aircraft and crew arrived at the crash site to find thick smoke rising in the air.
Borroto said one mobile home had been completely engulfed in flames. While he said there was an ‘unknown number of victims,’ he wouldn’t say how many people were injured or if anyone had died. However, the trailer park’s manager Lori Wilkerson told the Sun-Sentinel that three bodies had been pulled from the flames.
An AP reporter on the scene saw workers loading two stretchers into a white van. Each stretcher appeared to hold a covered body.
Domingo Galicia said he lived in one of the mobile homes hit by the plane and that his 21-year-old daughter, Vane, was inside at the time of the crash.
He said he was blocked by flames when he went to open the door to the home.
‘Where is my daughter?’ he asked. ‘I don’t know where is my daughter right
Tyron Caswell, an employee of a car dealership across the street, told the Sun Sentinel newspaper he saw a huge plume of smoke after hearing the crash. He said employees there were reviewing security footage taken outside the building of the plane dropping from the sky.
‘When I look back at the video it was like, ‘Whoa,” he said, adding he was stunned by how close he was to the crash.
The Red Cross had been called to assist two families, authorities said.
