RAGE; BOBCATS ASSIST INJURED MOTORISTS 

Stuart, FL

January 21, 2012

     FFA fans are used to seeing the Orlando Rage and TC Bobcats meeting on the gridiron, but Saturday the players met in an unusual location-Florida's Turnpike.

     At approximately 3:30 pm Saturday the Orlando Rage team bus was traveling southbound on Florida's Turnpike to Miami.  Coincidentally, Bobcats players were traveling along the same stretch of the turnpike to Fort Lauderdale to take on the Broward Bears.

   At that instant a northbound vehicle lost control and flipped over the guardrail into the southbound lane and ejecting passengers onto the roadway.

     Bobcat players Daniel LaFleur and another immediately got into action to stop traffic and lend assistance as the Rage bus pulled over to assist. LaFleur led the charge to roll the vehicle off of a teenage boy who was partially trapped under the crashed SUV. Once the car was righted, Rage DB Dale Boston and others wrestled the mangled interior of the vehicle to extract another victim.

     On the Rage bus was Offensive Line coach, Rick Leita, Director of Paramedics in Seminole county and a 25 year firefighter/paramedic. Leita, with assistance of LaFleur, Rage staff and players, another off-duty paramedic and two nurses who came upon the scene were able to triage the victims, consisting of a 7 year old girl, two teen boys and two adults.

     "When we pulled up all that I saw was an overturned vehicle in our lane, bodies on the roadway and a little, pink child's car seat-my heart immediately sunk" said Rage President, Christopher Morrison. "We rushed out to assist with our game day medical kit and a busload of strong arms to aid. I hope that our presence and the heroics of Daniel [LaFleur] and Rick [Leita] will aid in the family's recovery" Morrison concluded.