A number of elementary school-age college students had been injured after driving in a wagon that overturned on the Bushel and a Peck Apple Orchard in Lafeyette, Wis., on Wednesday, Sept. 18, Chippewa County Sheriff Travis Hakes stated in a Facebook announcement.
The youngsters had been college students at St. Mark Lutheran Faculty in Eau Claire, Wis., and on the Lafayette orchard on a subject journey accompanied by mother and father and chaperones. Lafayette is 58 miles southwest of Madison, Wis.
Twenty-five individuals, together with kids and adults, had been injured after the wagon pulled by a tractor misplaced management going downhill. The motive force tried to cease, however the wagon “abruptly” turned over, Hakes stated.
Three of these injured had life-threatening accidents and 5 extra had severe accidents. 9 extra had been transported by ambulance, yet another by helicopter and others had been taken by private autos.
All of the victims had been taken to a neighborhood hospital, apart from the sufferer within the helicopter, Hakes stated in a Sept. 18 press conference. He confirmed all of the victims had been secure, however he couldn’t present additional particulars on the time.
“The Chippewa Sheriff’s Workplace responded and the Chippewa County Emergency Administration instantly notified the Hospital Readiness Collation of incoming sufferers,” Hakes stated, including that the cooperating first responders “had been capable of tackle medical wants in a well timed method.”
Those that assisted embrace Lake Hallie Police Division, Chippewa Fireplace District, Chippewa Falls Fireplace Division, Cadott EMS and Fireplace, Boyd EMS, Bloomer Ambulance, Eau Claire Fireplace and EMS, Mayo Clinic Well being Programs, Chippewa County Public Well being and Chippewa County Division of Well being and Human Providers.
Hakes confirmed he headed to the scene, “assisted in calming the youngsters” and reunited them with their mother and father.
“As a mother or father myself, it’s a mother or father’s best worry that one thing occurs to their kids, particularly after they’re as younger as that,” Hakes stated through the press convention. “I can let you know the youngsters had been extraordinarily courageous, very resilient. I’m very pleased with each a kind of kiddos.”
“The chaperones did a incredible job,” Hakes remarked. “The chaperones and the mother and father that had been on the scene had plans. They’d a listing of kids and make contact with info that was instrumental in reuniting the mother and father with the youngsters.”
After the incident, the college principal, Peter J. Micheel, issued an announcement, per WQOW 18. “At the moment, we’re trusting the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Division as their members had been on the scene,” he wrote. “At this level, we’re specializing in reuniting the youngsters with their caregivers.”
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Representatives for Chippewa County Sheriff’s Workplace and Bushel and a Peck Apple Orchard didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for extra info on Thursday.