The hospital was crowded with kids - whom she said ranged from 9 to 14 years old - their relatives, and all four of the reserve’s police officers.Īccording to Phelps, the nurses determined that not all seven children had ingested pills. “It was chaotic,” she recalled of the scene she walked in on. Seven children had been brought in at once with possible drug overdoses from suspected suicide attempts. Phelps estimates the hospital can address about a quarter of their health needs.īut in the early hours of Sunday, April 10, the hospital staff was in even greater need of reinforcements than usual, Phelps said. There hasn’t been a regular mental health worker on the reserve for nine months because of a shortage of housing.Īttawapiskat has a population of about 2,000 people. As the hospital’s patient care co-ordinator, she’s used to making do with scarce resources.Īccording to the local health authority, Attawapiskat’s 15-bed hospital has no full-time doctors - they fly in four days a week, three weeks out of the month - and on weekends and evenings only two nurses are on duty. The Brockville, Ont., native is 55 and has spent almost 35 years working on the small Ontario First Nation about 700 kilometres north of Sudbury. The nurses were overwhelmed, the voice said, and Phelps had to come in.Īs she made the quick walk from the nurses’ compound to the hospital, she remembers thinking, “Oh my god, here we go again.”
It was a supervisor at the Attawapiskat Hospital. when Melanie Phelps was awakened by a phone call. “They had a magical connection.It was 1:45 a.m. “Everybody can say that they are friends, that they loved their siblings, or whatever they want, but those two were unique,” she told the newspaper. A funeral service will be held in Pocatello on Friday. State police believe they know what caused the wreck, but that information won’t be released until an investigation is complete, the Idaho State Journal reports.īobbi Neibaur said a friend of the family told her the teens - who were born 15 months apart - died together because God couldn’t take just one of them, saying they couldn’t live without each other. But the teens were no longer behind their parents as they approached McCammon, prompting the elder Eric to slow down and call another relative, who told him the teens had had an accident. Prior to the fatal wreck, the teens’ parents, Eric and Bobbi Neibaur, had been driving ahead of them, making sure everything was OK with frequent peeks in the rearview mirrors. Neither official was identified by the newspaper. Meanwhile, a Bannock County sheriff’s deputy - who was met by relatives as they tried to extricate the trapped victims - was so deeply shaken that he was given the day off to recuperate.
The teens were on their way back from a dirt bike-riding and camping trip in Island Park when a pickup truck driven by Eric drifted into the eastbound lane and slammed into an SUV driven by Jay Lanningham, 70, of Nampa, the Idaho State Journal reports.Īll three were pronounced dead at the scene. The emergency responder with Bannock County Search and Rescue who went into cardiac arrest while pulling bodies from the crumpled vehicles is expected to survive.
A sister and brother were killed in a triple fatal head-on collision so gruesome that an emergency responder nearly died when he suffered a massive heart attack at the catastrophic accident site.Įric Neibaur, 15, and his 13-year-old sister, Lauren, were killed Sunday in a head-on crash on US 30 near McCammon, Idaho.
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