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Firefighters extricate man trapped under train in Menlo Park

Original post made on Jun 12, 2020

A man who was hit and trapped underneath a train shortly before noon near the Caltrain Menlo Park station was taken to Stanford Hospital after firefighters worked to free him, a fire official said Friday.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, June 12, 2020, 12:39 PM

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Posted by LEah shindelman
a resident of another community
on Jun 12, 2020 at 6:26 pm

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Posted by charles
a resident of another community
on Jun 13, 2020 at 6:17 pm

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He was a wonderful man, who tutored our son in math. Before she passed, his wife told him to keep teaching to keep his spirits up. Which he did.

He was amazing with our kid, made math "click" for him, and had planned out lessons and books for the next few semesters.

I cannot believe you would write such an uninformed and hateful thing about such a wonderful human being.


Posted by mechanic
a resident of another community
on Jun 14, 2020 at 9:51 pm

"Firefighters used air bags to lift the train off of the victim" -- curious about a 20-ton airbag lifting a 100-ton locomotive. Did they use five airbags? Impressive technology.


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