An SUV slammed into a city bus, then the news helicopters took flight. How one tragedy led to another

“The helicopter just crashed!” a voice in the crowd yelled, drawing eyes away from the splayed-out wreckage of a bus collision that claimed two lives.

Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Brandon Silverman looked behind him to find a large plume of black smoke rising from a parking lot one block east. His team, which had just gruelingly removed passengers stuck between scraps of metal and glass, turned its attention to another deadly disaster Tuesday night.

Earlier in the evening, two bus passengers, Gage Weida, 31, and Daniel Castillo, 46, were killed when an SUV plowed into

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