In Texas, a crash on Saturday in the 2600 block of FM 980 at Lakeland Road near Riverside left the wife and son of the assistant chief for the Thomas Lake Fire Department seriously injured. It was a call the chief responded to not knowing his family was involved.
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“It’s my family. My wife was laying there on the ground. (By) the look of the car, I don’t know how either one of them lived. There was nothing left of that car,” Aaron Van Riper, Assistant Chief for the Thomas Lake Fire Department.
Both his wife, Amber, and son, Jonathan were rushed by LifeFlight to Memorial Hermann hospital. Both have a number of fractures.
Van Riper says Amber endured 9 hours of surgery just Sunday to repair her pelvis, broken in five places. The family, however, does not have insurance.
Friends have created a site to help the family with medical expenses and to make up for the lack of income as Amber is out of work. For more on that you can go to their GoFundMe page.
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