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LAPD helicopter makes emergency landing after being hit by drone at Encino brush fire (abc7.com)
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Water-dropping choppers were brought in to help keep the fire from spreading. The Los Angeles Police Department said a drone smacked into one of its helicopters, which was dispatched to the scene of the fire. Police said the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing.

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[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

at about 2:52 p.m., the helicopter returned to the Tarzana area along the 101 Freeway between Balboa Boulevard and Reseda Boulevard, just more than 1.5 miles from the fire in Encino, to assist officers searching for a reported kidnapping suspect.