A hot air balloon crashed into a power line and caused a fire, but everyone is OK
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Three people in a hot air balloon escaped largely unscathed after their basket clipped a power line, fell to the ground and caused a brush fire. A Minnesota Department of Transportation traffic camera captured the accident on video. It happened around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday in Rochester.
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Three people in a hot air balloon escaped largely unscathed after their basket clipped a power line, fell to the ground and caused a brush fire. A Minnesota Department of Transportation traffic camera captured the accident on video. It happened around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday in Rochester.
Three people in a hot air balloon in Minnesota escaped largely unscathed after their basket clipped a power line, fell to the ground and caused a brush fire.
Three people in a hot air balloon in Minnesota escaped largely unscathed after their basket clipped a power line, fell to the ground and caused a brush fire.
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Three people in a hot air balloon in Minnesota escaped largely unscathed when their basket clipped a power line, fell to the ground and caused a
The Rochester Police Department says preliminary information indicates the balloon had been trying to land in a field when a gust of wind pushed it into a power line.
The horror unfolded as the balloon was trying to touch down in a field next to Highway 63 in Rochester, south-east of Minneapolis, just before 7 p.m., local police said.
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