Over the weekend, a Florida neighborhood nearly suffered a catastrophe when a small aircraft plummeted from the sky, narrowly missing residential buildings.

The first people to reach the wreckage of a fiery plane crash in Broward County over the weekend weren’t firefighters or medics. They were neighbors — armed with a garden hose, a fire extinguisher, and one man’s axe.

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing short of heroic,” Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines in Broward County, said Tuesday.

The four people who were quickly rescued by good Samaritans from the Cessna T337G that crash landed on a Pembroke Pines neighborhood street Sunday were a family returning from a trip to a

A Cessna T337G crashed in a Pembroke Pines, Florida neighborhood, just short of North Perry Airport, after striking a tree. The incident, captured on

Neighbors leaped into action to help four people who were aboard a small plane that crashed in a Florida neighborhood.

A history of crashes plaguing North Perry Airport has Pembroke Pines’ mayor calling for a new safety audit after another stunning small plane crash in the neighborhood of Pines Village.