![]() ![]() The ambulance took a long while to get there and then had to travel over treacherous roads to to take Brent Poppin to the closest hospital which was not equipped to handle such a severe injury. ![]() To complicate matters, the setting on the mountain was remote and there had just been a heavy snowfall. ![]() The year was 1990 without the current medical advances we’ve reached today. His neck was broken at the sixth cervical vertebra. But it was athletic Brent who never got up again. The two teens were not even friends, and there was no blame in the incident. It was the last day he ever put his foot down, stood upright, and walked. When teenager Brent Poppen was play wrestling with a another teenager at a camp located at Lake Hume in California’s Fresno mountains, it was a day he will never forget. ![]()
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