Brooklyn, NY – Hatzolah responding with multiple ambulances to Ocean Parkway and Curch Avenue for numerous children that fell down 15 feet after a window shaft collapsed in front of Shaarei Torah Sepharidc girls school, NYPD ESU and fire department are also responding to the scene on a rush.
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The children all from the 6th, 7th and 8th grades were lined up outside during a graduation picture shoot when the grating collapsed. All the injuries to 36 children involved seem to be minor.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind cut short a meeting at his Borough Park office this morning when the news came in of a reportedly mass-casualty event of undetermined nature at the Shaare Torah girls’ school on Ocean Parkway, the State Assemblyman told VIN.
Hikind “ran to the school,” only to thankfully find out, along with the public, that the incident was not a deliberate attack of any sort.
“After what happened a few days ago in the Bronx with the shul plotters, I can’t begin to tell you what ran though my mind,” he said in an exclusive phone conversation. “I was sitting in my office. All of a sudden I get this message that there is a mass casualty at a school, which, it is interesting, had swastikas a few months ago… All I can say is, ‘Boruch Hashem nothing happened. It’s a real miracle.”
The incident occurred when an outdoor grate covering a cellar window well gave way, leaving several students with moderate injuries at the bottom, including broken bones. Two students were rushed to Lutheran Hospital with possible fractures. Seven others students suffered minor injuries, and were taken to Maimonides Medical Center and Methodist Hospital.
The Department of Buildings issued a violation for failure to maintain the grate.
hashem should watch over us and our children every day. we send them off to school and yeshiva healthy and pray they come back that way. this is very sad!
“Iyar” is roshe taves ani hashem rofecha
There are non stop news helicopters flying overhead.
Hatzolo volunteers are real tzadikim, dropping whatever they’re busy with to run and save their fellows’ lives, over and over again
Iyar is also roshei teivas E.R. – where these kids are going. Refuah shleimah. Baruch Hashem the injuries are minor.
I just heard on CBS a update 2 kids are in serious condition. Please,let’s pray for our children.
Was on the scene a minute after it happened. The quick response by Hatzolah and the well coordination was just amazing. I don’t know who this member is (Moshe Chaim something) but he coordinated the scene with such specialty. It was an amazing sight to see 10 Hatzolah ambulances lined up side by side on Ocean Parkway.
It’s nice to see the achdus between all of the different Hatzoloh departments.
My wife teaches there and some of the girls are being operated on as we speak, please be mispalel.
why dont people have common sebse if you put to much weight on a grate it will collapse
Hello guys where are you now? When the girl at bais rochel satmer boro park fell you had a bunch to say againts satmer. So come on open your mouth to this casualty.
My wife teaches there and some of the girls are being operated on as we speak, please be mispalel.
what a mircle I was there and bh only some broken bones
There are 2 patients with fractures, the rest are minor aches and pains.
CBS report of 2 critical patients is absolutely incorrect.
As for the response, I must say that I rest easier seeing how our community is able to so proffesionally respond to such a scene, and work so well together with FDNY, EMS, NYPD, Shomrim, etc.
It is these types of events that they train for, and their training paid off.
Thank G-D for everything but still remember, even fractures are serious and I hope all the injured have injuries with a perfect prognosis. Even to have injuries that heal but leave limited mobility, pain or weakness is a tragedy at this age.
Everyone ALWAYS has something to say about Satmar! But when something like this happens, its sha shtill.