🚑 🚔 I think of the First Responders

😼 We arrived home from Ottawa, the roads were now cleared. I guess the cats didn't miss us much. I thought they looked sweet and innocent when I saw them in the office. 

The trailcam reveals the action.

I took a walk on the day we had sunshine! The cedar corridor is a lovely spot. The 2nd photo shows a deer bed. They scrape the snow out and settle in. 

Sometimes they bed down in our backyard. This is a fawn in Feb., 2019.

🚑 🚔 I think of the First Responders, out there in the cold doing their best to rescue people, and get them help or to hospital. We laud them. What a calling it is. The storm on Saturday was awful for driving.

On the way home from Ottawa there was a car incident. A car went into the railing📹. 

🎣 On the way into Ottawa, we spotted people ice fishing. It's a bit worrisome as there were two separate ice fishing incidents in Ontario. One man died in Latchford, the other man rescued. Another incident, in South Frontenac on Dog Lake a pair were rescued.

   

Death on Roadway Black Ice

It was a terrible weekend for incidents. When we were in Ottawa, I had a text that our power was out at home. Later we found out what it was.

 

It was a very sad incident. Matthew Bigras was in his truck was taking his 4-wheeler home. He skidded on black ice on highway #7 and hit a stationary police SUV cruiser. (This was the afternoon we drove into Ottawa.) I took Perth Rd. #10 into the city, and I am happy I did. The police officer went to hospital. On a post, a mother spoke of losing her infant in a similar situation on highway 7. Photo by Dennis Papa on FB.

The son, Michael, was airlifted to CHEO in Ottawa, but did not survive. He was ejected through the windshield. The mother donated his organs to others in need. "Michael will have the walk of life to the surgery room. He  is saving 5 beautiful souls, 4 adults & 1 child." The family invited family and friends to walk the halls when life support was turned off to honour the child. 

The mother is doing a Go Fund Me in order to bury him. The father (Matt) won't be able to work for a while.  Chastity Tharp, the mother wrote:

"Matt is stable however he has a broken leg, a crushed pelvis and a punctured spleen. As for Sharon they have brought her to Kingston Hospital and I haven’t gotten any updates."

UPDATE Dec. 20: The third person in the vehicle was Sharon St. Amour. The poor woman is in an induced coma, needing a hip replacement, so her sister says on their Go Fund Me. 

Ornge helicopter whisked him into the Children's Hospital.

Hold your family close in your ❤️ heart.