A gust of wind from a storm likely caused the rental umbrella to fly down the Alabama beach.
/Gray News) - A woman was rushed to the hospital Monday morning in Alabama after a beach umbrella got picked up by a gust of wind and went through her leg.Officials with the city’s fire department say the woman is OK, but they haven’t seen anything like this before.
Deputy Chief Jeff Smith said they don’t remove impaled objects, so they had to cut both ends of the rod off, stabilize her, and let the doctors do the rest of the work.Smith said Orange Beach Fire & Rescue came out to that stretch of Orange Beach on Perdido Beach Boulevard around 9 a.m. He said a gust of wind from a storm likely caused the rental umbrella to fly down the beach, going through the woman’s leg.
With our area being in the thick of hurricane season right now, Smith said private tents and umbrellas need to be taken down so they don’t get picked up by the strong winds. “The services down there do a good job of trying to remove them when bad weather’s coming in but sometimes when storms pop up, gust of wind pops up. It’s happened in the past — not to this extent, but we have had injuries relating to umbrellas in the past,” he said.Copyright 2023 WALA via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Groups want guarantees from Hyundai on child labor, immigrant rightsThe group includes several Alabama organizations, including Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Alabama Arise, Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and others.
Lire la suite »
FAA says nearly 5K pilots lied about medical issues that would keep them from flyingNearly 5,000 pilots licensed to operate in the US are under investigation for allegedly falsifying their medical records to hide conditions that could make them unfit to fly, the Federal Aviation A…
Lire la suite »
Attention LA: That Loud, Low-Flying Plane You Might Hear Is Collecting Pollution DataThe flight is latest in a project to capture data on air quality and sources of pollution.
Lire la suite »
NYPD issues warning against drone flying near US Open stadiums: ‘Zero tolerance policy’Despite the Big Apple loosening restrictions last month for flying drones across the five boroughs, there’ll be a “zero tolerance policy” for those busted trying to hover their de…
Lire la suite »
Maine State Troopers hit by alleged stoned driver: ‘Bright lights and bodies flying’“Guy got out of the car and was like, ‘It wasn’t my fault. It wasn’t my fault. The lights blinded me,’ ” witness Donna Miller said.
Lire la suite »