WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Race Balloon Makes Surprise Landing In Harrison County: "Bulldozers cleared a path, deep in the woods of Harrison County. They were trying to reach a bright, yellow gas-powered balloon, that was stuck about 50-feet high in the trees.
'We had to knock some trees down and we had to get the flammable Helium out of the balloon', says Harrison County Fire Marshal George Mixon.
Harrison County firefighters got the distress call around 11:00 am Thursday.
'34 years of public safety, and I've never seen anything like this,' says Mixon.
The pilot and his co-pilot had no intention of dropping in on South Mississippi when they took off from Albuquerque Tuesday night.
'We were in a cross country balloon race,' says the pilot Brian Critelli. 'And as with any kind of air sport, you typically run out of fuel at some point, and we got low on fuel and decided to land.'"
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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