Frum Florida Family Return Home After Virginia Accident

by FrumNews.com

Tampa, FL – A heimishe family who are part of the growing and expanding Frum chasseidishe community of Khal Ahavas Hashem in the newly built Wimauma neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, were traveling back home early Sunday from Monsey, NY.

While driving in Virginia on the I95 South, they got into a major rollover accident, their four-month old daughter was ejected from the vehicle and everyone sustained injuries.

Virginia State Police which were first on the scene of the accident, administered first aid and requested a medical helicopter due to the severity of the injuries, shutting down the nations busiest interstate highway, the medical chopper landed at the scene of the accident and airlifted the infant to a local hospital.

The parents were transported by local EMS Paramedics to an area hospital by ambulance.

As word quickly spread throughout the tight-knit Tampa Jewish Kehilla about this accident, the community immediately sprang into action.

Close family friends and member of Chavivim Tampa, Yaakov (Yanky) Pollak and Duvid Leib Rosenberg headed straight for the airport, catching a direct flight to Virginia so they can be with the family.

In the chaotic aftermath, unsure of the family’s condition in an unfamiliar city, Khal Ahavas Hashem of Tampa community members Heshy Newman and Meyer Spitzer from Central Florida Hatzalah, immediately began coordinating help from the local Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim in Virgina and Askunim across state lines.

At the same time, Chaim Feldman from Refuah Hotline, Yedidya Blau from Rockland Chaveirim and Shimon Cheskel Weinstock Askun from Kiryas Yoel, used their national resources to make sure that the family is getting the best medical attention, Shimon Cheskel Weinstock then took the next flight out to Virginia to be with the family.

ARRIVING AT THE HOSPITAL
Many Chabad Shluchim to Virginia and Aron Slone, Askun and community activist from Norfolk, Virginia, arrived at the hospital after getting called, Rabbi Mendy Weiss, Chabad Shliech to Richmond, Virginia went back and forth between the injured the entire day.

BACK ON THE GROUND, AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT
Duvid Leib Rosenberg and Yanky Pollak of Chavivim, landed after a short direct flight from Tampa to Virginia, immediately headed straight to the scene of the accident as it was finished getting cleared by local authorities, they recovered the fathers Tallis and Teffilin along with other important valuables before heading to the hospital.

DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL B’nisei Nissim all three members of the family were discharged from the hospital. Harav Yossel & Rebbetzin Nechomi Kranz, head Shluchim of Chabad Lubavitch to the state of Virginia, welcomed the family into their home and provided comfort, companionship and a quiet place to rest as they slowly recover from their injuries during this challenging time.

The Greater Virginia Jewish community, including, Rabbi Mendy Heber and Rabbi Mendy Weiss of Chabad Lubavitch, and Rabbi Dovid & Rebbetzin Aliza Asher of the OU Shul Keneseth Beth Israel, played a pivotal role in providing assistance to the family, arranging accommodations and kosher food for the relatives and friends that arrived in Virginia to be with the family.

FrumNews.com has received confirmation that the family is BH back home in Tampa, Florida.
The family is B’Chasdei Hashem expected to make a full recovery.

A member of the Tampa Khal Ahavas Hashem Kehilla said to FrumNews.com “We are not just a community, we are a close family, but this week we have witnessed a tremendous Kiddush Hashem with such Chesed from countless Yidden across the USA, whom we never met nor heard of before, helping our dear community members with such love as if it’s their own family, מי כעמך ישראל.”

The family still needs Tefilos, the names to be Mispallel and say Tehillim for is
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