Helicopter crashes, explodes in flames on hospital roof in Grand Rapids. Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A helicopter has crashed and exploded in flames on the roof of a hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich..

Television images show thick, black smoke visible at the Spectrum Health campus.

It isn’t immediately known if anyone was hurt in the crash, which happened around 11 am..

Lynda Ignatoski, who was standing outside the Towers Medical building, says she saw the helicopter’s tail hit a radio tower on the hospital’s roof.

Ignatoski says the helicopter spun around and debris flew everywhere before the helicopter hit the roof and exploded.

Source: The Canadian Press