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发帖数: 19309 | 1 Neighbors rescue Wisconsin man who's buried in snow for 4 hours during
blizzard
Associated Press
Last update: February 4, 2011 - 11:17 AM
http://www.startribune.com/local/115285234.html
MILWAUKEE - A Wisconsin man who spent four hours buried in snow during this
week's blizzard says he just closed his eyes and wondered if it would be the
day he died.
Sixty-six-year-old Joe Latta, who lives alone, headed for his mailbox at the
end of his driveway in Janesville at the peak of the storm Wednesday
morning, but lost his footing and ended up on his back in the deep snow.
Latta couldn't move. Then a snowplow rumbled by and buried Latta. Police say
he was stuck under more than two feet of snow. Only his gloved hand was
free.
It wasn't until a neighbor, Betsy Nelson, spotted Latta's hand in the snow
bank that his fortunes turned. Nelson called another neighbor, off-duty
firefighter Todd Herrington, who started digging. Emergency crews were
called and Latta was rushed by ambulance to Mercy Hospital, where his body
temperature was stabilized. |
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