Heroes can come in all sizes as one Stafford resident found out recently.
Eric Blanc, Stafford, was making some last minute checks on the electrical system of the family camper, which ran along the underside of the floor requiring Eric to crawl under it.
Before Eric could get under the camper, he had to hoist it up with a jack.
After lifting the camper Eric made a mistake that he would soon regret – he didn’t put adequate secondary support under the camper. A few seconds after crawling under it the camper dropped suddenly pinning Eric underneath.
Eric was lying on his side when the camper came down. When it dropped, the camper’s cross-member firmly settled directly upon Eric’s hip, pinning him helplessly in place. With nobody outside in close proximity it looked as though Eric might remain pinned under the camper for a long, long, time.
Luckily, Eric’s wife began wondering why he had been outside so long. She sent daughter Brynn to check on him.
“I looked for my Dad on the one side of the camper and I didn’t find him, Brynn said. “Then, I looked on the other side and I heard him crying for help.”
Eric told Brynn to go inside and get Mom.
Brynn did as she was told, and soon Mom came outside and frantically called 911. Firefighters and medics arrived shortly after the call. The firefighters lifted the camper with air bags and the medics then took Eric to the Stafford Hospital. All the way through the accident and onto to the hospital Eric continued to don his John Deere ball cap.
Later at the hospital somebody else was wearing that John Deere hat, a little hero named Brynn.
