When 19-year-old boy from Australia wakes up from the coma, it takes a new, more terrible ordeal – he will learn that his entire family was killed during the eruption of the volcano white island in New Zealand.
Jesse Langford of Sydney is now in Royal North Shore Hospital, he has 90% body burns, 19-year-old boy entered in a medically induced coma.
In early December he went a 12-day cruise with his mother Christine, the younger sister of Winona and father Anthony, to celebrate the 51st birthday of father.
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They decided to take a day trip to white island on 9 December, when disaster struck.
My god, the White Island volcano in New Zealand erupted today for first time since 2001. My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it. Boat ride home tending to our rescued boat people was indescribable. #whiteisland pic.twitter.com/QJwWi12Tvt
— Michael Schade (@sch) December 9, 2019
His parents died when the volcano began to erupt, firing into the air, smoke and stones to a height of 12 thousand feet. According to rescuers, the body of a younger sister Jessie is somewhere in the waters around the island. She was found dead, but the body can not find, it is not visible on aerial photographs.
In the eruption of the volcanoand killed at least 16 people were injured – 26, and some of them still not regained consciousness.
Most of the dead and injured Australians who were on the cruise company Royal Caribbean’s 16-deck ship «Ovation of the Seas».
Plastic surgeon Michelle Locke, working in Auckland hospital Midler treating eight victims, said that patients with severe burns will require skin grafting, which has been brought from USA and Australia.
The families of the victims and survivors still wonder why the tourists were allowed to visit dangerous active volcano. The tourists were given gas masks, so they could get closer to him, despite warnings from security.
Since the disaster, the announcement of the visit to the volcano was removed by a tour company, but previously it read:
«Drama’s next: gas masks will help you to get closer to the roaring paratwada, bubbling pits of mud, hot volcanic streams and the amazing lake of steaming acid.»
