Fallsburg, NY – Hero Who Saved Jewish Woman in Lightning-Strike Honored

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    Devin Corbett at the hospital bed on Aug 2 2010Fallsburg, NY – The scene of a potential tragedy became a setting for celebration Tuesday when Fallsburg officials met at Morningside Park to honor those who responded to the Aug. 1 lightning strike that seriously injured a boater and the park employee who raced to save her.

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    State Sen. John Bonacic, Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther and county Legislator Leni Binder joined the Town Board in presenting certificates at the park’s pavilion.

    They honored parks employee Devin Corbett, who paddled out on the park’s lake to rescue stranded boater Laya Feiner, a Lakewood, N.J., resident, and her infant child during a heavy thunderstorm.

    Read full story at Times Herald Record


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    13 years ago

    It’s high time Yidden show some Hakores Hatov to gentiles who help and save us.

    13 years ago

    I never understood, why do we add the words, Oveinu Malkeinu Shlach Refuah Shelaimo, -“Lchoilei Amecha”-,?
    Why not ask for a Refuah for every single Person, period? Why exclude anyone?

    OyGevald
    OyGevald
    13 years ago

    Thank you, Sir.
    You’re the man!

    Nobama
    Nobama
    13 years ago

    What a great human being that fellow is!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    No thanks for Hatzalah? That was a job well done by W27.

    mythoughts
    mythoughts
    13 years ago

    #1 – What do you mean “it’s high time”? Can you name one time that Hakores Hatov should have been expressed and it wasn’t? Maybe it’s your own personal insecurity and you need to work on it. Aibeshter knows we have many faults as a people but this is not one of them. Your sanctimonious and condescending attitude is disgusting.

    13 years ago

    no 1 I don’t know about you but most of the charedi I know always show Ha kores Hatov; i get this more from the charedi than the goyim and I work with both. You get to remember there are many who dress charedi but are not; it is like a uniform to them.
    Please look again and see and you will see I am right

    hiijacker
    hiijacker
    13 years ago

    #2 I heard an explanation for that and in shemna Esrei we say “rofaih colei amoi yisroel” from R. Eichenstein many years ago (I dont recall it all) that initially man did not get sick, people would just get old, sneeze and then die (which is where the custom to say gezunteit or other form of blessing to the sneezer comes from).

    When sickness was brought into the world, it was only meant for klal ysiroel, either as a kaparrah or catalyst to daven to hashem for refuah. But if other nations would see that only kalal yisroel would egt sick they would use it against them (look what happened suring the black plague). So therefore illness occurs amongst all the nations.

    The blessing is made for choliei ami yisorel, becuase, if they would get healed, there would be no reason for the other nations to have illness either.

    I second #6
    I second #6
    13 years ago

    Shame on you #1 for casting aspersions on klal Yisrael.
    Although as human beings we have our faults, please don’t lie and say that we are not makeer tov.
    On the contrary most ehrliche yidden that I know are always thankful.
    Your comment disgusts me.
    Maybe it is high time YOU look in the mirror and address your chisronos.
    These days of reflection would be “high time” for you to begin your teshuva.

    13 years ago

    To #8
    But we are saying extra words just to make sure that they&#8 217;re excluded.
    And how is a typical child, who doesn&#8 217;t know your Pshetel, supposed to understand this.

    13 years ago

    What an emotional saga…tears are streaming…
    How is the woman doing? What is her name for tehillim? Did i understand correctly from the video clip that she went out to her husband to help him row to shore? Where did the infant child come in?

    Joe-Shmoe
    Joe-Shmoe
    13 years ago

    #2

    I think you are right, when your relative is in the hospital, (your wife having a child) I hope you should go out, forget about your wife and spend time with goyim. right? FYI, by us yiddin, other yiddin are like our brothers always ready to help us in some way. Me k’amcha yisrael.

    sylmoss
    sylmoss
    13 years ago

    I watched, smiled, cried along with the father.
    He was soooooooo proud and has every right to be .
    I hope they all recover fully.

    13 years ago

    To #12 & #14
    Your attitude of being aloof and being non-caring for a fellow Human, is exactly the attitude Yidden had in Europe from year 1800 to year 1930.
    Then, HKB”H said, ‘They’re supposed to be the Light onto the Nations, where is the love and respect’?
    The rest is history.

    ActualJew
    ActualJew
    13 years ago

    do not sully an article about a hero with your ridiculous arguments. this is about a young man who saved a life/the world. Jews have always shown appreciation to our wonderful and heroic Gentile neighbors. G-d bless him and keep him.