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André Howard Jr. had just picked up his three children from school and took them to Duncan Donuts for an evening breakfast, which is a weekly family ritual that suddenly turned into a terrible, narrow escape from the tragedy.
On January 31, a media jet crashed in the neighborhood of northeastern Philadelphia, which caused flames and rubble to rain on houses and debris on roads and vehicles traveling on roads, including a Howard Family truck.
Howard told CNN, “My children wanted strawberries, so we went to Duncan donuts.” “We heard a boom, really a fast boom, and we saw a fireball that covered the entire sky.”
Seven people were killed-all six and one father who was inside his car-a twin engine jet, after being taken to a child’s patient and his mother crashed. At least 24 people were injured on the ground.
The child on the board, Valentina Gozman Merilo, was just released from the hospital where he was treating his spine biprida’s condition even before he was killed with his mother.
The injured included at least two other children, including a 10 -year -old child, who collided with debris in his head while rescuing his younger sister, and a 90 -year -old fighting his body 90 % Was burning after losing part. Father in the accident.
Here are their stories.
It was a terrible dream that was coming out in real time: Howard said how it turned its truck upside down to avoid debris. The family saw that the cars were burning fire, a man and people were flying in the air.
“In those two seconds, everything was coming in a slow move,” Howard said.
During the chaos and panic, Howard said he had heard his 10 -year -old son, Andrey, named after his name, asked his 4 -year -old sister to go down. Andre then pigeons on it to protect it from the debris.
When he examined the previous seat, his daughter and another son, 7, were physically fine, but he discovered that the Andrea’s head had something listed.
“I see my unconscious son with a piece of metal in his head. I got out of the truck and put a sock on his head, and when I moved it, a piece of metal fell, and he was bleeding, “Howard told CNN, fighting with tears.
Howard said that a man approached, handed him off his shirt and handed him over to him to help bleed. He added that a woman used to come and take care of her two other children while she was turning to Andre.
They flagged the police car at a distance of 30 feet from the scene. Howard said the family came to the back seat and made it to Jefferson Torissudel Hospital in less than 10 minutes.
The plan was to take Andre to a local children’s hospital that would be better suitable for the treatment of children’s patients. “But if we put it on the flight, she’s not going to make it,” Howard called a doctor back. With the expansion of time, André conducted an emergency surgery at the hospital.
The medical team warned him that Andre would never run again, and his vision could be bad.
After surgery and CT scan, Andre was shifted to Philadelphia Children’s Hospital in a stable condition. Since then, he has been developing. His father said he was expected to walk, and his vision was fine.
When Andre came, he first asked about his sister. “Did I save him from an accident?” Andre asked his father.
For Howard, there is no doubt in his mind that Andre saved his sister’s life.
“Andrei is my superhero,” he said. “As a father, I have always entered them (his two sons) to protect my sister when my father is not around. And I am grateful to a son like Androm.
A few hours before the accident, staff at a hospital in Philadelphia gathered to send a love to Validan Gozman Marilo and his mother, Lazyth Merilo Osona, before his flight home to Anissinda in Baja California, Mexico.
Valentina was taking care of her spine Buffida’s state -of -the -art stress wound, an organization that provides children with special needs and helps with family access treatment, wings her wings. Founder Susan Mary Fasino said. Fasino wrote in one that an 11 -year -old child faced numerous health challenges and he was very weak Facebook Post. There is a problem in the development of the spinal cord when there is a problem in the spinal cord growth or the spinal cord.
“The plan was to bring the rest of his life home to life and his beloved family, to bring home homes,” said Fasino.
“The caregivers, staff and patients together,” Sharener’s spokesman Mel Bover told CNN, “his desire and his desire to travel in his journey and his time to be meaningful and influenced in Children’s Philadelphia. Joined together to wish. “
The young girl made close bonds with other patients and all staff who knew her, Bover said. “He will be remembered for his dear soul, and when we go ahead we will take this soul with us.”
In the last six months of her life, Osuna was eventually “getting help with her daughter, which she fought intensely for the whole life,” Fasino said. Osona “was one of the most loving, focusing mothers who could have a baby ever.”
Fasino said, “He never literally turned his attention.” “They lived together every moment and they entered Even together.”
Rimasis Drawat is fighting for his life when his father was killed when his car caught fire near the site of the accident and dragged the body of a 9 -year -old boy into flames, the baby’s grandmother Told CNN’s affiliates.
When photos and videos started flooding social media, the Virgin Vera was scanning his phone for updates about the accident. Then she came into a heartbreaking video showing her grandson.
Vera told Cue, “A few minutes later, I came out of someone’s internet video.” “For a moment when I see it, I say, ‘That’s it.’
The first respondents at the scene were killed inside one of the vehicles. The office of Philadelphia’s Medical Examiner pointed out that the man, 37, from Philadelphia, as the father of Steven Druy, Ramsees, from Philadelphia.
Vera shared a photo with his grandson’s cue, which was lying in the hospital bed, her entire body was wrapped in bandages. He said that the young boy, whom he described as a “happy child”, is recovering in the burn unit in Boston.
The family launched Gofundme According to the Online Fund Riser, the page to support Rimasis, which is currently in a coma and will need surgery.
When he is saddened by the death of Ramsees’ father, the family has demanded privacy and is focused on the boy’s recovery.
After so much affection for his son Ramsees, his mother was impressed by the compassion of everyone and was asked to pray.
His mother said in a Facebook post, “I won’t put any of it on social media.” “But I think it’s about it and about the love you want to show it. I pray, he is strong and my trust in God is greater. But I feel like my prayers are not enough. “
CNN’s Sarah Deobery, Rabka Rice and Danny Freeman participated in the report.
