The pilot of a hot air
balloon made an emergency landing on a residential street in Huntley
this morning to avoid power lines - the second time in five days police
and fire crews in the far northwest suburb have responded to a downed
balloon.
No injuries were reported in the latest incident and only minor injuries in the other.
Huntley
police said they got a call around 7:25 a.m. today about a balloon that
had landed in a yard on Windy Prairie Drive in the Sun City community.
Emergency crews found that the balloon had actually come to rest near
the intersection of Windy Prairie and Songbird Lane.
The pilot
told police that the wind was carrying the balloon and he did not want
to cross Illinois Route 47 and get close to power lines along Interstate
90. So he decided to set the balloon down in the neighborhood, police
said.
The balloon had taken off from Hampshire and was carrying three passengers. No one was hurt.
On
Friday, a balloon landed at the Pinecrest Golf Course around 8:20 a.m.,
police said. A passenger suffered minor injuries during the landing,
which damaged a tree and part of the course, police said.
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