ווי סקיקט אויס ווייסטי מער ווי אינז. פליז גאו עהעד, קיפ אן אפדעיטינג אס
נשלח ב-23/5/2004 19:26
Shumacher
You are winning an Oscar for your good reporting, hundreds of people are waiting for your updates, keep it comming
נשלח ב-23/5/2004 20:06
OK, יעדער ווארט אויף מיר!
ב"ה נישטא קיין טויטע: א פאר שווער פארוואונדעטע (נישט LIFE THREATNING) און בעיקר צובראכענע ביינער.
ס'איז געווען א מאנסי טרעילס באס פון סקווירא, און האט געדארפט צוריקפארן צו בית יעקב OF SMOLLY DRIVE אין מאנסי.
SIGNING OFF:
שוכמאכער
נשלח ב-23/5/2004 20:18
איך קום יעצט פון די הצלה גאראדזש דא אין קרית יואל די אמבולאנסעס מיט די מעמבערס זענען נאך נישט צוריק. די מעמבערס קארס זענען געפארקט ארום די גאראדזש זינט 6:00
נשלח ב-23/5/2004 21:08
משה אהרן שטיינבערג (ראש פון ק"י הצלה) דרייט יעצט איבער גאנץ אפסטעיט ניו יארק! ער פירט אן א MASSIVE EVACUATION פון אלע דארטיגע האספיטאלס, און אמבולאנסן טראגן בלי גוזמה צענדליגער מיידלעך קיין העקענסעק!
Bus crashes into Mongaup River today
Dozens of teenage girls returning from a religious retreat aboard bus
Times Herald-Record
Liberty - A bus carrying dozens of teenage girls returning from a religious retreat careened down an embankment and flipped into the Middle Mongaup River earlier today.
At least 38 of the girls were hurt, including at least three seriously, but the accident could have been much worse had the bus not struck a watermain before toppling over, authorities said.
Rescuers scrambled through the bus's front window, leading those who could walk to safety. Others had to be carried on backboards or strapped into Stokes baskets to be brought up the near-vertical embankment to safety.
Shivering girls, some with blood streaming down their faces, some with gauze wrapped around their heads, comforted one another. Firefighters and EMTs gave the girls blankets and their coats to keep them warm.
The bus, one of five in a caravan belonging to Natzach Transportation, was loaded with Hasidic girls aged 14 to 17 who had come to Ferndale's Camp Gila from Monsey for a Shabbas retreat.
Just after 6 a.m., the driver lost control of the vehicle at the bottom of a steep hill on Ferndale-Loomis Road, said State police Lt. Kevin Costello.
The bus crashed through a guard rail and skidded across a foot-thick water main before flipping into the creek 25 feet below. The front end of the bus lay on the steep bank, the door pressed to the rock and dirt beneath.
The rear of the bus was in the shallow creek. The rescue response was swift, with EMTs from 14 ambulance companies responding.
"That pipe really saved them," said Dick Martinkovic, the county's emergency management officer. Without the pipe, he said, the bus would have plunged full-speed, straight into the creek. There would almost certainly have been fatalities if that had happened.
Read full comprehensive coverage of this story in Monday's edition of the Times Herald-Record.
