Viktoriya Medeiros, 34, of Bulgaria, who designed the hair-hanging "human chandelier" act with her husband, said the women know they are lucky to be alive. They declined to detail the extent of their individual injuries, citing the potential legal action, but their lawyers said the performers had collectively experienced about two dozen surgeries. For some, it was their first public appearance since the accident. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show.įour of the women spoke Tuesday at a news conference at a hospital in Boston, where a number are still undergoing physical therapy. "Now my dream is to get up and walk."Įight acrobats from the U.S., Brazil, Bulgaria and Ukraine were injured May 4 when investigators say a carabiner clip snapped, sending them plummeting about 6 metres to the floor at the Ringling Bros. "My dream was to be a star performer," Julissa Segrera, 20, said from her wheelchair. He and fire officials were alerted to the blaze by an automated alarm.Ĭanton said the fire won’t disrupt plans to hold limited camping programs this spring and summer.īecause of COVID-19 and the need for social distancing, plans already had been made to move outdoors or into tents much of the programming that would have taken place inside the buildings that burned, he said.Ĭanton said they hope to begin construction in September and have it completed in time for the summer of 2022.BOSTON - Four circus acrobats seriously injured in a hair-hanging stunt gone wrong are planning a lawsuit, they said Tuesday from the U.S. The fire remains under investigation, but authorities have said they have not found any evidence of arson.Ĭamp director Alan Pender was the only person at the camp when the fire broke out, Canton said. 12 blaze, which destroyed buildings housing the camp’s woodshop, arts and crafts, cooking, creative writing program and camp store. “That energy and those memories make our campground sacred and those new structures will hold those memories as well and be ready to take on new ones.”Ĭanton said they plan to build the new buildings out of something more durable than wood, will include sprinkler systems and large underground cisterns.įire departments used tankers and water from the camp’s pond to put out the Feb. “Those structures were intended and designed to house life-changing memories and they served their purpose beautifully,” Canton said. The charity now serves about 20,000 kids a year on site and through community and hospital-based programing. The camp was built in 1988 to accommodate about 300 children each summer, he said.
“Having had such great experiences there, we want to bring it back to what it was.”Ĭanton said insurance will cover much of the rebuilding costs, but the plan is to construct a better, much larger and safer single-level complex that is more accessible to children with a wide variety of physical needs. “Everyone who has been to camp has had their bump in the road…so now that Hole in the Wall has hit its bump in the road, we want to pay it back,” she said.
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Being able to do things such as scale the camp’s climbing tower and zip line to the bottom gave her a feeling of accomplishment and normalcy, she said. “It’s just been so inspiring,” Canton said.Ĭarly Demartino, 16, of Granby has been attending camp since 2016 after she was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Jimmy Canton, the camp’s chief executive officer said Friday that just over $900,000 has come in from other sources, including charitable foundations, individuals including celebrities such as golfer Bubba Watson, and even the families of campers. That includes pledges of $1 million from the Newman’s Own Foundation and a promise by Travelers and the Travelers Championship PGA golf tournament to match up to $1 million in other donations. Less than a week after a fire tore through Hole in the Wall Gang camp for seriously ill children in Connecticut, almost $3 million has been raised to help rebuild the facility that was founded by the late actor Paul Newman.
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