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The Herald, Thursday, February 9, 1 995 Page 6 Near-fatal industrial accident recreated for 'Rescue 91V FORT WAYNE (AP) The list time Scott McCriDdle was at Park Hospital, his fa-making funeral arrange- far him. JV 1a MxixaxaxaxVaaxaxaaxaxTat ttk i a a axxxr LscA ww a aMnaa 1 axaxxxtiiifl time, I've spent 14 years with the coroner's office, and I think I've seen everything," said McCrindle's father, Martin. "And I honestly didn't think be would make it." McCrindle's bead and neck were so purple and swollen his own parents and girlfriend did not recognize him. Both his lungs collapsed, and his left leg was badly broken. He was unconscious for almost three days.

But a week later, McCrindie was discharged, and be was back to work in November. He said he still does not remember the accident. "I beard a loud noise, and that was it," he said. McCrindle's recovery was so miraculous that his father thought it was worth a letter to "Rescue 911." Michael Collins, a director with the show, said be thinks the unusual setting of McCrindle's accident might have made it stand out. "We don't see many industrial accidents," he said.

"And they were able to bring him back from death." Maybe that was why there was such a festive atmosphere at Parkview during Monday's film- A video crew for the television show "Rescue tapes a take at Parkview Memorial Hospital in Fort Wayne. The segment, to be shown this spring, was a recretion of Scott McCrindle's near-fatal industrial accidents (AP photo) said it was nice to be able to joke about it during the filming. "This helps us heal," the elder McCrindie said. "They told us not to do anything special," nurse Staci Garman said. "But I did iron my scrubs." The episode won't air until later this spring, but McCrindle's father ing.

McCrindie visited with the staff between takes, and those who participated in tbe re-enactments joked about their big moment on national television. 0220 ROOM ROBO AUTOMATIC CAR WASH ab acu a. jm 4m-wr- i a mm bora -Love seat- Lnair The scene was a little different this week, as McCrindie and the hospital staff recreated his near-fatal industrial accident for the television show "Rescue 911." McCrindie joked with the medical staff as a makeup artist covered his skin with purplish-gray foundation and traced rivulets of fake blood out of his ears. Chest tubes and intravenous lines were taped to his body, but this time they were only props. Doctors were not sure if McCrindie was going to live when he arrived at Parkview on Jan.

13, 1994 McCrindie, now 25, was checking stock at Supreme Corp. in Goshen when a rack of stainless steel fell on him and he was pinned against a wall by about 2 tons of debris. By the time co-workers could pull him from the pile, McCrindie had stopped breathing and barely bad a pulse. He was taken first to a Goshen hospital, but doctors decided he should be flown to Parkview, the closest trauma center. I've been a firefighter a long Youths helping Colombian kids with donations MERRILLVTLLE (AP) The lives of two Colombian children who live in poverty are being made a little easier, thanks to some students at Andrea High School.

Spanish teacher Mary Anagnos and students in five of her classes donate between $60 and $75 each week to two children in Bogota, Colombia. The money is sent to Maria Cristina Corredor San tana. 7, and Julio David Torres Beltran, "A dollar is nothing to us, but a dollar could mean a difference to Anagnos said. Anagnos knows what it is like to be poor An orphan in Greece, Anagnos said she never had food and weighed only 29 pounds when she was adopted at age 6 "The doctors said I would have been dead in six months if I had stayed." she said. Conditions are not good for Maria or Julio, either.

Maria's family, which includes her parents and three siblings, survive on the equivalent of $144 a month. They live in one room that has a dirt floor, tar paper walls and a corrugated tile roof. They sleep on wooden beds Julio's family lives in a two-bedroom house with a concrete floor He. his parents and two siblings all sleep on two beds. They live on $118 a month.

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NM. NC. NO. OR, and Rl dents donate will help buy the children food and clothing, and help them continue their education. In exchange, the students get pictures of Maria and JuUo and details about their lives A bulletin board in Anagnos' classroom that bears pictures of the children also contains lists of Maria and Julio's hobbies.

Maria enjoys writing, playing with friends and running. Julio's favorite subjects are math and reading, and he also tikes to play soccer with his friends. Tbe students plan to continue sending money to the children until tbe end of the school year. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany in 1934 upon the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. WeAiORtS DtADUNE 22695 W2-Q95 M'r1'KlQSinlfi I was nqws679 LECHNER LAWN GARDEN 505 Lechner Lane, Jasper Hwy.

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