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To everyone supporting "Give a Damn?"
As some of you may know there was a drastic accident that took place yesterday involving Dan Parris and Rob Lehr. They were taking aerial photographs of Kibera, one of the worlds largest slums, when the plane stalled. The pilot manages to glide the craft just outside of the slum's perimeter most likely saving at the least hundreds of lives. The only casualty other than inside of the plane was a 11 year old girl who saw the whole thing and is struggling through post traumatic stress. First the wing of the plane struck a telephone pole redirecting it from the street they were trying to land on. This caused it to smash into the side of a three story apartment building. Then throughout the 30 meter fall to the ground the plane flipped upside down and instantly caught on fire. The doors happen to be off since they were both filming and if they had been on Rob says they would not have made it out alive. Rob was able to escape the plane and though bleeding servery from the head, gained his composure. When he realized Dan was unconscious and still in the plane he went back for him. Dan regained conciseness, saw flames right beside his head and with all that he had left, crawled out of the plane. When Rob made sure he was safely out he did what only a hero would do, went back for one of the two pilots. The closer of the two was still strapped in and hanging upside down. He was also unconscious and at that moment Rob saw and image that will be with him for the rest of his life. There was blood streaming down his head and one side of his face had caught fire. Reaching across the man's body, Rob managed to undo his seat belt just as his arm and pant leg caught fire. At that moment the 1st local man on the seen grabbed both him and Dan and helped them into a car headed for the hospital. As it sped on the wrong side of the road with it's horn blaring the duration of the ride for Dan and Rob the ride to the hospital was nearly as thrilling as the crash.
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