SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Days after a small plane crashed into a Murphy Canyon neighborhood, killing all six people on board, survivors on the ground are facing the emotional and financial toll of the disaster — including residents whose vehicles were destroyed by flaming jet fuel that poured through the streets.
Home security footage from a Ring camera captured the moment burning fuel flowed down a gutter, igniting cars along Taussig Street. One of those vehicles was a Kia Soul owned by Nichole Crone, who lives in the neighborhood with her husband, a U.S. Navy service member, and their three children.
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“We got woken up about 4 a.m. by our son,” Crone said. “He sleeps with his window open, and he heard the tires on the car popping. That’s what woke him up — that’s what woke us up.”
Crone requested her face not be shown for privacy reasons but wanted her story told…