'We just heard a boom and a dead sound, and I could see the flames,' one caller told Los Angeles Fire dispatchers on the morning of January 26
The group had been on their way to a youth basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks.
“Probably the cloud base was about 300 feet. I think another local resident who lived here 17 years in these condos said he’d never seen the fog and low clouds this thick,” Daehlin, 61, said. “I was sitting on my couch when I heard it go over our roof. I thought to myself, ‘Wow they’re flying really low today.’ It must’ve been about 100 feet above our roof by the way the house was shaking. I couldn’t imagine why a helicopter was flying so low – although we have a lot of police choppers coming over because the sheriff’s headquarters is up the road a bit,” Matt Graham, another Calabasas resident told PEOPLE on January 26.
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