A single-engine aircraft crashed right into a waterfront cell residence park in Clearwater, Fla., Thursday night, killing a number of individuals and damaging 4 houses, officers stated.

The aircraft slammed immediately into one residence, Scott Ehlers, the hearth chief in Clearwater, stated at a information convention, including that there have been “several fatalities, both from the aircraft and within the mobile home.”

The crash engulfed a part of the park, Bayside Waters, in flames, and three different cell houses have been broken, although nobody inside these was injured, Chief Ehlers stated.

Movies posted on-line confirmed an orange blaze and a wall of thick smoke billowing over houses. Frances Yont, who lives throughout the road from the crash, told 10 Tampa Bay, a CBS affiliate, that she might really feel the warmth from the hearth when she ran out of her residence in Clearwater, roughly 20 miles west of Tampa.

“Everything was popping like propane tanks,” she stated. “We couldn’t do anything,” she stated, including that “it was horrible.”

Hearth officers have been coordinating with the Nationwide Transportation Security Board and the Federal Aviation Administration for an investigation, Chief Ehlers stated.

The Hearth Division acquired the preliminary name at 7:08 p.m., and crews “quickly extinguished” the blaze after arriving on the park at about 7:15 p.m., Chief Ehlers stated.

About the identical time that his division was referred to as, the chief stated, the St. Pete-Clearwater Worldwide Airport, roughly three miles away, had dispatched its personal hearth response autos to an “aircraft having an emergency.”

The pilot had reported a “mayday” over the radio to the airport, he added.

“The aircraft went off radar about three miles north of the runway, which is in this location here,” the chief stated on the crash website.