Just before 4:30 pm Friday afternoon (April 13, 2012) Forest Grove Fire & Rescue crews were called to a home in the 1000 block of Stonewall Avenue for a reported pediatric trauma injury. When our Paramedics arrived, the mother of two twin three year old boys reported to them that the brothers had been playing on an outdoor play structure when one of the boys apparently dropped a rock down on top of the other boy. The rock was found to be approximately 4 inches in diameter and struck the boy directly in the top of the head. The boys' mother quickly controlled the bleeding and called 9-1-1 and our crews determined that the child's' injuries required him to be transported by Lifeflight; the boy was conscious and talking to our Paramedics during the incident. Within minutes of taking off from their Aurora, Oregon base, Lifeflight arrived on scene and landed on the ball fields at Tom McCall Elementary School where the injured child was loaded into the helicopter and taken to the trauma center at Legacy Emmanuel Hospital in Portland for further evaluation and treatment.
The injured boy is loaded into a waiting Lifeflight helicopter by FGF&R and Metro West Ambulance Paramedics
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