Breaking News
Boy fighting for life
Danielle Long
Wednesday 30 April, 2008 1:06pm
A TEENAGER was moved from intensive care to a regular ward at Westmead Children's Hospital yesterday morning, after he fell more than 5m from a skylight at Galston High School on Sunday.
The Advocate can reveal the boy, from Dural, 13, was a student of the school.
He was with another boy, also 13, at the time of the incident. That boy was also a Galston High School student. The school declined to comment on the incident.
An Education Department spokeswoman told the Advocate counselling had been made available to students and staff.
The police said it appeared the two boys had stacked desks on top of each other to gain access to the roof of the school building about 12.30pm.
The school had been closed for two weeks for holidays. A short time after gaining access to the roof, the Dural boy fell through a plastic skylight on to a classroom floor.
After witnessing the fall the other boy ran to the nearby Galston Aquatic Centre to call 000.
A spokeswoman for the aquatic centre declined to comment.
Police, ambulance and NSW Fire Brigade crews attended.
A NSW Ambulance spokesman told the Advocate the boy was "not good" when emergency services arrived.
"He was in a critical condition and was transported to Westmead Children's Hospital by the Westpac helicopter," he said.
The boy has had a CT scan and remains in a stable condition in his ward.
Police investigations into the incident at the school continue. Editorial, Page 23
