Please keep my friend (and mother of my oldest niece) in your prayers. She has 2 daughters and is currently 30 weeks pregnant.
There was an explosion at a local manufacturing plant and her husband was in front of it. He is in Westchester Medical right now on a breathing machine with severe burns from the waist up. He hair is all burnt off. I guess he was pretty black when they flew him down. He is looking at years of rehab and skin grafts.
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