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Later in the week, as the winds died down, almost anything with wings or rotor blades that could help save the beleaguered city began to fill the sky above Los Angeles.

A helicopter crashed after the hose it used to suck water from a lake broke free and got tangled in the rotor blades.

A gripping device set the log down on the creek bed while the whirling rotor blades kicked up dust.

Mr Salmon, from London, said that after being evacuated he initially mistook the helicopter's rotor blade for a lamppost.

Along with the recovery of one man's body, crews found the flight recorders near each other as well as debris including parts of rotor blades.