The Signal, Santa Clarita, CA 4/13/18:
‘Thinking on the fly,’ helicopter crew stops train speeding toward fire
They hoist hikers with broken legs and hypothermia, waterbomb scorching brush fires in cool fashion and whisk ill children to trauma centers.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department Air Operations section can now add one more task to their ever-growing list – stopping a speeding train.
It all began Thursday afternoon when a fire broke out on the 4700 block of Crown Valley Road in Acton, about 20 minutes northeast of Santa Clarita city limits.
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