One person dead and one injured after two helicopters crash in New Jersey

Hammonton police responded to a report of a midair crash that engulfed one helicopter in flames on Sunday morning

One person is dead and another has been left critically injured after two helicopters crashed in a southern New Jersey town.

Hammonton police chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11.25am. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters.