Boy, 4, Reunites With Firefighters Who Saved His Life
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Courtesy UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital Oakland(OAKLAND, Calif.) — Three months after 4-year-old Sebastian Johnson’s fall off a 225-foot cliff, he has reunited with the hero firefighters who saved his life.
“Thank you for saving my life,” he told the Bodega Head Firefighters on Thursday in northern California.
Sebastian was with his family at Bodega Head, a rocky beach area north of San Francisco, Nov. 10 when the ground beneath his feet gave way and he tumbled out of sight, his father, Daryl Johnson, told ABC News Affiliate KGO-TV.
“The incident that happened was my worst nightmare,” he told the television station of a fall that exceeded the height of a 20-story building.
Sebastian injured his skull and broke many of the bones on his right side, prompting doctors at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, to put him in an induced coma for 10 days.
Speaking to ABC News during Sebastian’s recovery, his mother Jamie Guglielmino described her little boy’s difficult recovery.
“He’s definitely in the arms of angels right now,” Guglielmino told ABC News. “It’s been real touch and go, but he’s on the road to recovery.”
Sebastian has been living at the hospital since his fall in November and will probably remain there for another few weeks, a hospital spokesman told ABC News. But overall, he is in good health.
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