No one was injured when a medical helicopter hit a power line while lifting off from the scene of an accident near Council Bluffs Wednesday night.

Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker says the helicopter was called to help a man who had fallen off a ladder. Danker says the accident happened when the LifeNet helicopter was taking off from Cardinal Lane and Overland Trail to transport the man to Creighton University Hospital in Omaha.

Danker says the chopper's tail rotor clipped a power line owned by Mid-American Energy. That caused a loud pop and a blue flame and sparks from the power line caused a small brush fire.

The helicopter landed safely in the middle of a field about 250 feet from where it took off. The chopper sustained some damage.

Danker says an ambulance from Lewis Township took 51-year-old Patrick Slayden to the hospital in serious condition.