Today, we are going to share with you some very sad and shocking news. Many students fall from approximately 20 feet at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg. A total of 18 people are hospitalized. During a school field trip, a raised platform at Fort Gibraltar, a well-known historic landmark in Winnipeg, collapsed, resulting in the hospitalization of 17 children and one adult. Reporter Melissa Ridgen talks about what some students say they went through, what happened to those who were transported to the hospital, and the anxious moments of parents.
Accident at Fort Winnipeg Gibraltar
Repairs are being made to an elevated platform that collapsed at Fort Gibraltar in St. Boniface during a field trip for students from Winnipeg’s St. John’s-Ravenscourt School, injuring seventeen children and one adult. According to Jay Shaw, deputy chief of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, three of the 18 patients who were hospitalized Wednesday morning were in unstable condition when they were brought there. A school group, made up of boys ages 10 and 11, was said to have fallen approximately 20 feet from a wooden platform inside the building, according to Shaw, who said they were summoned to the fort in Whittier Park shortly before 10 a.m.
Only one child is expected to spend the night for observation after orthopedic surgery, according to Dr. Karen Gripp, medical director of the Children’s Hospital emergency department, who spoke to reporters Wednesday afternoon. Most of the children have been treated and will be released during the day. None of the students’ injuries, according to Gripp, were serious or life-threatening, but they could have been “so much worse.” Tameem Aljafari, a student at SJR, told Global News that the bridge fell when he and about 30 of his classmates were crossing it at the fort. Emergency services carried most of those who fell into ambulances, but Tameem was uninjured.
Bystander Chantel Craig stated that she saw children being treated and they were all taken to ambulances while the main accident response vehicle took a few more children from the scene. According to the SJR, it was a group of fifth grade students who were involved in the incident. “There was an event that required the emergency services to take 17 members of the SJR community to the hospital. We reached out to their families and parents,” said the school’s principal, Jim Keefe. The students and adults who were not injured returned to the school where they had received care, according to Keefe. To organize the collection of the children, he called the parents. So this was all about this case. So, stay tuned for PKB news.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn