VICTOR — The Rochester Area Community Foundation is hosting “An Evening Out With Sean Sherman” at the Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Road 41 (Boughton Hill Road), on May
Crews are still working to restore power in the town of Mendon after rainy weather ripped down six poles along Boughton Hill Road. One driver had to be rescued after those live wires fell on top of her car.
This memorial to Christian Koch, Daniel Prial and Steven Skoda from C Company of the 1st Battalion, 171st General Support Aviation Battalion at the site of the crash of the New York Army National Guard helicopter was put up by Marvin Vahue, Mark Winship, Cory Gates and Jerry Fox.
Photo by Donna MacKenzie
Residents of Mendon are used to helicopters flying in the sky above them as they are often in the flight path of Mercy Flight choppers flying patients to Strong Memorial Hospital or military helicopters from the Army Aviation Support facility at the Rochester International Airport conducting training missions. However, things just didn’t seem right on the night of January 20.
3 National Guard members die in Rochester-area helicopter crash
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Mendon, N.Y. Three members of the National Guard died Wednesday after a helicopter they were on crashed in Mendon, near Rochester, according to a statement by the National Guard.
The New York Army National Guard UH-60 medical evacuation helicopter based at the Rochester International Airport was on a routine training mission when it crashed, according to the statement.
The helicopter was assigned to the 171st General Support Aviation Battalion in Rochester.
The helicopter crashed in the 1300 block of West Bloomfield Road, between Cheesecake Factory Road and Boughton Hill Road at 6:32 p.m., Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter said at a Wednesday night news conference.