Hero's at the Indiana state fair
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:05 pm
Little girl hurt in collapse had many angels
One little girl.
Amid the screams, the crushed limbs, the people writhing in agony, the people not moving, the people who were already dead and the people who might yet die, there, lying amid the carnage, was 3-year-old Maggie Mullin.
Her arm was bleeding profusely. Her mom couldn't move. Clearly, Maggie was in danger. She needed to be rescued.
Among the countless stories of tragedy and heroism borne of Saturday's catastrophic stage rigging collapse at the State Fairgrounds, the story of Maggie's rescue has touched Hoosiers in a special way. Perhaps because she was so fragile, a little girl in a tutu so eagerly awaiting her favorite band -- Sugarland -- to appear right before her very eyes.
But also because her story -- the whole story of her rescue -- is the very embodiment of how people rise to the occasion in a crisis, an almost perfect illustration of Gov. Mitch Daniels' proud proclamation that on that night, in the midst of sheer terror, "there was a hero every 10 feet."
In Maggie's case, perhaps 10 such heroes -- far more than her dazed mother, Laura Magdziarz, ever could have imagined when she first told the story of a single guardian angel who whisked her child to safety.
A doctor. A machinist at a shocks and struts manufacturer. A registered nurse. A state trooper. A county sheriff. A firefighter. A nursing student studying electro-neurodiagnostics.
More here:
http://www.indystar.com/article/2011081 ... dyStar.com
One little girl.
Amid the screams, the crushed limbs, the people writhing in agony, the people not moving, the people who were already dead and the people who might yet die, there, lying amid the carnage, was 3-year-old Maggie Mullin.
Her arm was bleeding profusely. Her mom couldn't move. Clearly, Maggie was in danger. She needed to be rescued.
Among the countless stories of tragedy and heroism borne of Saturday's catastrophic stage rigging collapse at the State Fairgrounds, the story of Maggie's rescue has touched Hoosiers in a special way. Perhaps because she was so fragile, a little girl in a tutu so eagerly awaiting her favorite band -- Sugarland -- to appear right before her very eyes.
But also because her story -- the whole story of her rescue -- is the very embodiment of how people rise to the occasion in a crisis, an almost perfect illustration of Gov. Mitch Daniels' proud proclamation that on that night, in the midst of sheer terror, "there was a hero every 10 feet."
In Maggie's case, perhaps 10 such heroes -- far more than her dazed mother, Laura Magdziarz, ever could have imagined when she first told the story of a single guardian angel who whisked her child to safety.
A doctor. A machinist at a shocks and struts manufacturer. A registered nurse. A state trooper. A county sheriff. A firefighter. A nursing student studying electro-neurodiagnostics.
More here:
http://www.indystar.com/article/2011081 ... dyStar.com
