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HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Wearing an limb sling for his breached clavicle and with an injured achromatic eye, 8-year-old James reflects connected Monday afternoon.
"All I retrieve is erstwhile I was going retired from school, the extortion fell connected me," recalls James.
He was waiting to beryllium picked up astatine Washington Elementary School successful Hanford erstwhile the unthinkable happened.
A information of the ceiling stucco astatine the school's amphitheater collapsed without warning.
"As helium was walking by, the full happening benignant of collapsed connected him and it sounded similar the 1 portion landed connected apical of his caput and that knocked him implicit and past different portion landed connected apical of him aft helium fell," explains James' mother, Diana Harrah.
The debris struck 2 students, some were taken to the infirmary and released the aforesaid day.
James' mom, Diana, who is simply a schoolhouse caregiver astatine a antithetic district, recalls getting the frightening telephone from her husband, Shawn Harrah, who was determination to prime up their son.
"I was capable to get determination and cheque connected him and speech to him and fto him cognize I was determination and I got a clasp of her arsenic rapidly arsenic I could," recalls Shawn.
"I cognize erstwhile I got the call, my bosom conscionable dropped and I was truthful scared, truthful I raced rather a bit, rather accelerated to get here," remembers Diana.
The schoolhouse territory released a statement, explaining that the schoolhouse is closed until December 1.
On Tuesday, engineers and an designer inspected the building.
Diana, feeling grateful for the punctual effect from the unit and archetypal responders.
"We are incredibly thankful that definite things happened, portion of the wall, the obstruction that took portion of the value and his backpack, his publication were bent successful fractional and they were beauteous heavy truthful I consciousness helium had an armor connected him with his back-pack," mentions Diana.
Despite suffering a concussion and immoderate bruising, James is keeping a affirmative cognition and looking guardant to seeing his friends successful a fewer weeks.
"I deliberation they mightiness beryllium impressed," James continues, "Because a extortion fell connected me. A extortion fell lone connected me!"
Students volition proceed learning remotely.
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In the meantime, the household shares they anticipation this ne'er happens again- and for now, are focused connected James' recovery.
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