Crime & Safety

2-Year-Old Girl Falls Ill on Plane to Orange County

Paramedics met her upon arrival from Vancouver. Authorities initially believed it was meningitis.

A 2-year-old girl fell ill with a fever today on a flight from Vancouver to John Wayne Airport, where paramedics met the plane and transported the tot to CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange, a fire captain said.

Orange County Fire Authority personnel were dispatched to the airport about 2:30 p.m. on a report that a toddler was feverish on West Jet Flight 1754, which was carrying 125 passengers, OCFA Capt. Larry Kurtz said.

Dispatchers initially said it could be a case of meningitis, “but we’re pulling back from that,” Kurtz said about 3:30 p.m.

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Passengers did not need to be quarantined and were all cleared to go to their destinations, Kurtz said.

--City News Service

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