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Texas State student puts life on pause to adopt baby he found abandoned in trash pile in Haiti - fox29.com - state Texas - city Houston - Haiti - county Storey
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Texas State student puts life on pause to adopt baby he found abandoned in trash pile in Haiti
SAN MARCOS, Texas - A Texas State student from Haiti is making headlines after his mission to adopt a baby he found in the trash back home went viral. Jimmy Amisial, 27, attended Texas State University as a communications major. In 2017, he went home to Haiti to visit family for the new year. MORE FINDING FAMILIESThat's where he found now-4-year-old Emilio Angel Jeremiah, just four months old at the time, abandoned in a pile of trash. "You could see him crying, and he had no clothes on, and he had fire ants crawling all over him," Amisial explained. He says because of Haitian superstitions a group of people surrounding the baby were too afraid to rescue him. "No one wanted to touch the baby because they thought the baby was cursed, they were like it's New Year's Eve, the devil is trying to get us," said Amisial. MORE HOUSTON-AREA NEWSHowever, Amisial, who often volunteers at orphanages, in Haiti said he didn't hesitate to pick the baby up and take him home. Haitian officers and a judge came to his family home, and they asked Amisial, just 22 years old and a college student, if he wanted to become the baby's legal guardian."Even though I didn't know how I was going to take care of him I took a leap of faith by saying yes," Amisial said. Since taking on the responsibility, Amisial has struggled financially.
Watch a wind turbine disintegrate in Texas after a lightning strike - fox29.com - Usa - county Day - state Texas
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Watch a wind turbine disintegrate in Texas after a lightning strike
CROWELL, Texas - A North Texas wind farm is one turbine down thanks to what officials believe was a devastating lightning strike to one of the massive structures on Friday afternoon.Videos from witnesses and firefighters showed the wind turbine generator ablaze and disintegrate in the sky over Crowell, Texas.Doppler radar indicated there was plenty of lightning strikes around the Foard City wind facility before firefighters received the call about the high-altitude fire.Lightning struck a wind turbine on Friday afternoon in Crowell, Texas.HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER ON TVCrews with the Crowell Volunteer Fire Department responded, but Fire Chief Perry Shaw said there was little his firefighters could do to put the fire out."We’re not equipped to handle that kind of fire. Nobody in the area really is to speak of," Shaw said.The fire chief estimated there were 800 gallons of oil in the gearbox and around 1,300 gallons of mineral oil in the ground-level transformer, which caused the smoke to appear dark black in the sky.Firefighters said they let the fire in the wind turbine burn itself out.The facility’s operator, Innergex Renewable Energy, said all personnel at the more than 31,000-acre complex are safe, and the fire only impacted one of its energy turbines.The Foard City wind farm has around 139 GE turbines and was commissioned in September 2019.Shaw said he has seen plenty of videos of turbine fires, but this is the first time he recalled an incident involving one in Crowell.WIND ENERGY BECOMES SECOND-LARGEST SOURCE OF US POWER FOR 1 DAY IN MARCH"We’ve done training with the wind farm company, and they are not safe to approach during that scenario.
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