3-Year-Old Child Seriously Injured After Falling From 3rd Floor Window

MANCHESTER, NH — A 3-year-old was seriously injured when they fell more than 30 feet from a third-floor window to the ground.

Manchester Fire and AMR were dispatched to 150 Blaine St. Sunday for a fall in the parking lot. When they arrived, they found a man holding a 3-year-old with traumatic injuries incurred in a fall from the window. The man holding the child identified himself as the father and said the child fell from the third-floor window.

The child was prepared for transport and rushed to the Elliot Hospital. The child had significant head and facial trauma, so the Elliot trauma team was activated, according to Manchester Fire Battalion Chief Josh Guay.

A man working across the street from where the child fell said he heard a “thud” and a child crying. He ran over and said the child stopped crying momentarily and began crying again.

A window on the third floor could be seen partially open and detectives were taking photographs looking out the window. Information gathered at the scene indicates the child hit a small roof over the back entrance and then fell to the ground.

Manchester Fire Battalion Chief Josh Guay said the scene was turned over to the police, who are investigating what appears to be an accidental fall.

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