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Helping in a crisis Neighbors helped at the accident scene, those sitting in traffic BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
It takes a village in good times, but during a crisis in the foothills, the village steps up to help any way it can. In the aftermath of a horrific crash that killed two on U.S. 285 on Aug. 26, folks stopped to help at the accident scene and to aid people stuck in traffic, which was at a standstill for five hours. Elk Creek firefighters and those sitting in their vehicles are grateful for the good Samaritans who provided aid. James Ballenski and Debbie Stewart saw the crash and stopped to help, along with about a dozen
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others. Both said they were jumping out of their vehicles so fast that they forgot to turn off the engines. Ballenski talked about a guy in the pink shirt who began organizing volunteers even before rescue personnel arrived. “He was the hero of this,” Ballenski said. “He grabbed the passenger side door (of the Ford truck that was hit) and tried to pull the door open. I don’t know how he got those two out. He told others to check the other truck.” Ballenski said he told the man in the pink shirt that if he was ever in a situation similar to the car crash, “I hope you would be there to save me.” Stewart, a CPR instructor and a former park ranger, brought her CPR kit out of her car to assist “I felt that in some way that I could help,” she said. “I thank God for putting me there if I could do any good. The overall thing was the goodness of people.”
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