small helicopter crashes in Minnesota neighborhood

small helicopter crashes in Minnesota neighborhood

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MAPLEWOOD, MINN. – A helicopter contracted for mosquito control

spraying crashed in a suburban neighborhood just east of St. Paul.



Police say the small helicopter crashed in the backyard of a home in

Maplewood, igniting the chopper and a detached garage. Maplewood Lt.

Kerry Crotty says no one was in the house or garage when the

helicopter went down shortly after 8 a.m. Police declined to say if

anyone was hurt.



Donna Basler lives four houses from the crash site and says she heard

a "big rattling type noise" but didn't know what it was. Basler says

she didn't hear a crash, but saw smoke billowing from the neighbor's

garage.



Metropolitan Mosquito Control District spokeswoman Jill Sederholm says

the plane was under contract to spray for mosquitoes in Maplewood.