Winnipeg Fort Gibraltar Accident: 18 hospitalized, Students fall nearly 20 feet 2023

Today, we will share with you a very sad and shocking news. Scores of students fell about 20 feet at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg. A total of 18 people were hospitalized. During a school field trip, an elevated platform at Fort Gibraltar, a famous historical landmark in Winnipeg, collapsed, sending 17 children and one adult to hospital. Reporter Melissa Ridgen discusses what some students said they experienced, what happened to those taken to the hospital and anxious moments for parents.

Accident at Fort Winnipeg Gibraltar

A high platform collapsed at Fort Gibraltar in St. Boniface on a field trip for students from St. John’s-Ravenscourt in Winnipeg, which injured 17 children and one adult, is being repaired. According to Jay Shaw, assistant chief of the Winnipeg Fire Rescue Services, three of the 18 patients admitted to the hospital Wednesday morning were in unstable condition when taken there. A group of students including 10- and 11-year-olds are believed to have fallen about 20 feet from a wooden platform inside the building, according to Shaw. Shaw said they were summoned to the fort at the Park Whittier just before 10am.

According to Dr. Karen Gripp, medical director of the emergency department at Children’s Hospital, who spoke to reporters Wednesday afternoon, it is expected that only one child will stay overnight for observation after the surgery. Orthopaedic Surgery. Most children have been treated and will be discharged the same day. According to Gripp, none of the students’ injuries were serious or life-threatening, but they could have been “a lot worse.” Tameem Aljafari, a student at SJR, told Global News that the bridge collapsed while he and about 30 classmates were crossing it in the fort. Emergency responders put most of the people who fell into ambulances, but Tameem was unharmed.

Bystander Chantel Craig said she saw the children being treated and they were all placed in ambulances while the main accident response vehicle removed several more children from the scene. According to SJR, the incident involved a group of 5th grade students. “There was an event that required emergency services to take 17 SJR community members to the hospital. We have been in contact with their families and parents,” said principal Jim Keefe. According to Keefe, the uninjured students and adults returned to the school where they were cared for. To arrange pick-up, parents were called. So this is all about this case. So stay tuned for PKB news.

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