![]() Thank you all for your donations, prayers, and continued support. Our community is strong and I have no doubt everyone will come out of this stronger as long as we are there for one another to lean on through the tough times. Please consider donating in his time of need. Donations will help Benjamin with his loss of wages and expenses while he recovers. Him and his family need our prayers, support, and strength to get through this. He will be at the Milwaukee Burn Unit for at least a couple of weeks to a month. He has a very long road to recovery ahead of him. He’s caring, funny, and strong in his faith and his family. His hands and legs that he needs to do his job to make a living, and to enjoy his lifelong hobbies of hunting and fishing.īenjamin is a hard worker. His hands, legs, lower back, and face are the worst. He now has burns covering 40% of his body. A bonfire tragedy that caused physical injury to 33 people, and emotional injury to probably everyone in attendance along with the community.īenjamin Van Asten is one of the people that was severely injured when he was knocked unconscious and his clothing caught fire. ![]() An evening meant for fun and laughter turned into a night of panic and pain. October 14 is a day most will look back on with sadness. There is also a GoFundMe page for Benjamin Van Asten. I believe in the power of prayer and I trust that God will bring a greater good out of this including the kids that were responsible for this and their families. If you know me, you know I don’t usually ask for favors… but I’m asking each and everyone who is reading this to stop what you’re doing right now and say a prayer for all these kids and their families …. One of our greatest blessings has always been all the wonderful friends and family God has surrounded us with. Thank you all so much for all the acts of kindness, phone calls and texts during this extremely difficult time in our lives. His close friends here are in similar situations He has burns on 21% of his body and will need multiple skin grafts to repair the damage. Five were taken to Milwaukee, including Isaac. Although their intentions were not malicious, 33 kids ended up with significant burns. Some kids thought it would be funny to throw a container of diesel mixed with gas on the fire to ‘scare’ everyone. As most of you already know, he was involved in an incident last night at a bonfire with a buncha friends after Pulaski’s homecoming football game. Please help even if it’s just 10 bucks, it all adds up.”Īs I sit here with teardrops falling on my phone, I wanted to update everyone on our Isaac. She wrote: “And although Julie and Luke aren’t the type to ask for help, they can obviously use the extra help during a time like this for extra expenses and for the long road of ahead of them. “I have seen how many people have wanted to help, so here’s your chance …” “Hi, I’m Jackie Kordiyak (Julie’s sister) and Isaac is my nephew,” it says. There is a GoFundMe page set up to help victim Isaac Nelson. Here’s what you need to know about the Pulaski bonfire victims: and multiple other witnesses who were not injured. They believe there were probably about 30-40 total victims. Sheriff’s officials said about 17 victims “all self-transported to multiple hospitals.” The exact severity of injuries is not known, but the injuries ranged from critical to people already released. Multiple detectives were assigned to the case. The Shawano County Sheriff’s Department said in its release that it was investigating the “bonfire incident” within the Township of Maple Grove. Several individuals suffered burn injuries requiring medical attention,” they wrote in a news release. ![]() Shawano County Sheriff’s deputies determined that an “unknown number of individuals were gathered for a bonfire when an accelerant was applied to the fire causing the fire to expand out of control. There are GoFundMe pages for multiple victims, which you can find rounded up later in this article.Ī GoFundMe page for one of the victims says, “Two kids decided it would be cool to toss a diesel/gas can into the bonfire.” A bonfire explosion caused by an accelerant injured 30 to 40 people in Wisconsin, some of them from Pulaski High School. ![]()
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