Helicopters

Today was an early morning with a trip into Chicago for my MRA. Thursday's are also our garbage/recycleables day (put it all out on the curb before going to work). As this is Fall we also fill up leaf bags and put them on the curb. Altogether I had about 10 items to move to the curb this morning.

So this morning I got out around 6:00 (still dark outside) and started moving things to the curb. The first thing that I noticed is that I heard some helicopters in the sky. This isn't too unusual but what was different was the number of them. There were 5 helicopters hovering not far north of where we live. Quite a bit of noise.

My neighbors were out also putting out their garbage and pretty soon we were all discussing the helicopters and what they were doing. As I said sometimes there may be 1 or 2 if there is an accident on the highway but this is normally farther away from our neighborhood. No one knew the reason at that time.

30 minutes later we dropped our girls off at a friend's house so that they could get a ride to school and we learned from their mom that there had been a medical helicopter crash about 3 miles from our house last night. [They had closed off the road that we normally travel on so it was really good to learn this.] Unfortunately the crash was a fatal crash for all 4 occupants (including an infant) and was national news today. link

This explained all of the other helicopters that were in the sky that were from various news stations covering the story. I wish that the answer to the mystery had been better news. :(