Plane Crash - Multiple house fires East Haven CT

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Date:8/9/13
Time:11:26
Location:64 Charter Oak Avenue
Units: East Haven FD - Branford FD additional M/A units enroute

Description: Twin Engine plane down into houses. Reporting multiple structure fires at this time with entrapment's.

Very active scene: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/689/web

East Haven FD - Engine's 1,4,6 Truck 3, R1, Sq 2,5 - multi command units

Branford FD - Engine 1,4 Rescue 1 ,Med 1 multi command units

Branford E1,9 to East Haven FD for cover

New Haven FD - Eng 15,5,17 Tr1, Sq1, Sq2 w/ LDH wagon, C33 (East Side Battalion) FYI NHFD Squads are Rescue Engines.

INITIAL REPORT - 8 passenger twin engine took off from Tweed/New Haven airport. Unkown # of souls on plane.

Live coverage on WTNH

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3 people involved. 1 person in the plane and 3 people in 1 house. Mother, 13 year old and 1 year old. Other house was vacant. Both structures fully involved upon arrival.

Chief acted as if it were 2 structure fires with a fuel filled vehicle. Partial collapse on both homes. Nobody has been recovered from house or plane yet. Fire was k/d in less than 30 minutes.

Plane is a twin commander twin engine turboprop plane that took off from Teterboro at 10:49 am and was using instrument landing and communicated to tower to land at runway 2. Plane missed its approach. Clouds were at 900 feet.

Additional info provided by peterose313

Edited August 9, 2013 by CHIEFPHIL