The Cardinal

A paramedic on the scene of several crashes of the Route 7 Bridge in Delaware Park was seriously injured when he fell while trying to jump across the gap between the northbound and southbound divide. He fell about 50 feet into the creek bed below at about 12:30 a.m. Monday. Police report that a driver [...]

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Mount Prospect police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 10:08 PM Tuesday to a report of a victim that fell in an open sewer at 1747 Crystal Lane by Crystal Towers. Firefighter/paramedics and police received a report that a 40-year-old female was injured when she fell into an open sewer hole. She was either rescued by citizens [...]

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Palatine police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 9:42 a.m. Monday to a report from a woman that she fell in a sewer hole near Hicks Road and Garden Avenue. A woman called from her cell phone that she had fallen into an open hole. She reported she was about 12 feet down after falling in the [...]

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A seven-year-old autistic girl climbed out on to a window ledge of her Brooklyn apartment. Cell phone video captured the girl’s fall in the arms of a man standing below. Keyla McCree, 7, of Brooklyn fell from a third-floor window, but was saved by an alert neighbor who absorbed the force of her fall. Keyla [...]

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Schaumburg police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 7:15 p.m. Thursday to 2344 John Smith Drive to report that a one-year-old fell out of a second-story window. Emergency responders received a report that a one-year-old was in the back of the building with her mother — and awake.

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Schaumburg police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 6:25 p.m. Friday to an apartment building at 1113 Dickens Way to a report of a two-year-old child that fell from a third floor balcony. Emergency responders received a report that the child was breathing and crying. The child was brought inside to an apartment before police and firefighter/paramedics [...]

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Camel Rock at Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Forest (Courtesy Daniel Schwen/Wikipedia/Camera Location 37.604349,-88.385578). Pastor Hong K. Yu, 60, of Lake Bluff suffered serious injuries after he fell 25 feet at the Garden of the Gods Tuesday morning. Hong K. Yu was with a small group from the Korean Baptist Church of Waukegan, [...]

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Arlington Heights police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 3:19 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a 16-year-old male injured when he fell off a moving pickup truck. Witness at the scene said the teen fell off the truck while riding in the rear parking lot. The witness said he appeared to have a head injury. The [...]

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Prospect Heights police at a sports injury call on Apple Drive were requested to respond to the 600 block of Piper Lane for a 3-year-old that fell out of a window. Police called for an ambulance and discovered that a 3-year-old fell out of a second-story window. No word on the extent of injuries. Prospect [...]

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Arlington Heights police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a woman who fell out of a second story window at Tanglewood Apartments, 2150 South Goebbert Road. Police discovered the woman fell out of a laundry room window on the second floor. Police reported no need for investigation, as it was [...]

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Buffalo Grove police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 11:45 a.m. to a report of a man that fell about eight feet into a hole near the intersection of Buffalo Grove Buffalo Grove Road and LaSalle Lane. Rescuers received a report that the incident was on the south side of LaSalle Lane at Buffalo Grove. Apparently a [...]

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A Massachusetts teenager fell 20 feet when he tumbled over the side of a public transit escalator. He admits he had been drinking before the fall. He suffered a broken elbow. Surveillance video captured the life-threatening, carless act by an inebriated Shane O’Malley, who doesn’t remember 20-foot fall. He lost his balance and fell off [...]

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