get help paying for what medicare doesn t. and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. i want to update you now on the ski lift accident in maine. a malfunction there. several skiers dropped 25 to 30 feet to the ground. people were hurt, they were trapped. they were scared, of course. we re learning a bit more about what happened now. on the phone with us is a guy who broke the story. he was actually on that ski lift when it derailed. he saw several people fall. get this he works here at
there was an accident apparently there was a derailment on the chair lift which caused five cars to come down. there are confirmed injuries. reports from witnesses of screaming and what not. and there were 100 people trapped on the chair lift above them. they re working on evacuating those people right now. the sugarloaf spokesman, ethan austin, calling this accident, a big deal. again we ll keep you updated on that going forward. stay with us.
how many people were on the five chairs and how would you account for the fact that there were only six injuries? six injuries is what has been reported to me at this time through our incident commander. patti ann: how many people fit on one chair? two people per chair, so it s not highly unusual that if five chairs fell only six people would be injured. patti ann: got you. gregg: there might have been only one person per chair. correct. gregg: has this ever happened on this particular chair lift before? have you had any cable derail -plts where it came off at the top of the tower. no we haven t. gregg: is it due to high winds? what caused it? we will be investigating it. once we have everybody on the ground we are not entirely sure what caused the accident. we will be look into it. gregg: how windy was it this morning right about the time it occurred? it s a windy day up here, but not extraordinarily windy for
figure, why not? i ll just pay the penalty. they ll break their leg at the company softball game. when they get to the hospital, they ll sign up, they ll pay their little fine, they throw their crutches out and their insurance card out. this causes premiums to skyrocket. another thing that causes premiums to skyrocket and what we ve seen is it s almost like the government saying to gm you have to require that every american has a cadillac, and it has to have a hybrid engine and all these new things. but you can t raise the sticker price. that s what they ve done with health care reform. best thing is to open it up over state lines and go after tort reforms. megyn: if you get injured at your company softball, you can bill that to worker s comp. all right, ladies, identify got to go. thank you both. happy new year. megyn: and to you. back, now, to that ski lift accident at sugar loaf ski resort in maine. the left, the accident left a derailed chair on the ground
they should be able to get to the location with snowmobiles i would think and then somehow transport them down on boards? well, exactly. there has to be a clinic right there at the ski resort. they would put them on the boards. tape them to the boards. tape their head to the boards. then they could ski them down out of the mountain. gregg: right. but the most important thing, get them to a hospital if they suffered blood loss or if they have had blows to the brain. gregg: how well-trained are some of these ski patrol people? you see some of them with red jackets and a cross on the back which signifies they re capable of rendering first aid. they re very well-trained. they re very similar to ems type workers. they re trained in this kind of accident and trained to handle emergency situations. they should be on the scene. they should be able to stablize the patient. the most important thing is stablizing. you re not there performing an operation. they need to know the basics. make