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Unable to recover, the main rotor blades then struck the ground and the helicopter ultimately crashed on its starboard side approximately 20m from the point of lift-off.

Later in the week, as the winds died down, almost anything with wings or rotor blades that could help save the beleaguered city began to fill the sky above Los Angeles.

A helicopter crashed after the hose it used to suck water from a lake broke free and got tangled in the rotor blades.

A gripping device set the log down on the creek bed while the whirling rotor blades kicked up dust.

Mr Salmon, from London, said that after being evacuated he initially mistook the helicopter's rotor blade for a lamppost.