Firefighter responds to car crash, finds wife and son are the victims
A
firefighter responded to head-on collision and found his wife and young son
among the victims.
“It’s my
family. My wife was laying there on the ground,” firefighter Aaron Van Riper
said. “I don’t know how either one of them lived. There was nothing left of
that car.”
Both his
wife, Amber, and son, Jonathan, 7, were airlifted to the hospital. Both
suffered multiple fractures
Van Riper told KTRK his wife went through nine hours of
surgery on Sunday to repair a broken pelvis.
"She gave a thumbs-up to the doctor, but that's the
first time she showed signs of anything," Aaron added.
Both his wife and son are expected to be in wheelchairs
temporarily as they recover.
It is unclear if anyone else was injured in the accident.
However the family doesn’t have medical insurance so friends
set up a GoFundMe account to raise $50,000 to cover the medical costs.
