Tonight a young boy is fighting for his life at the KHMH. Little 10 year old Briton (Brighton) Cordova is on life support after a house collapsed on him this morning.
The child suffered a cardiac arrest and severe head trauma.
The incident happened in Orange Walk Town on Yo Creek Street around 9 this morning. 10 year old Briton Cordova along with another boy, 7 year old Jova Griffith were playing with a pair of puppies under their house when it toppled off its stilts. Luckily the house was very low in the first place, only two to three feet off the ground - so the fall was not that great but it still trapped the two children underneath.
With help from the neighbors, the children were rescued and rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital where 7 year old Jova was treated for bruises on his foot.
10 year old Briton Cordova was in a critical state and had to be rushed to the KHMH. 7news caught up with the child's mother who told us his condition. She asked to appear off camera:..
Voice of: Mother of Briton Cordova
"We got up this morning but we were still in the room when I heard that the house began to crack and we jumped up but I heard my baby cry downstairs and we heard silence and that's when we knew that he was downstairs."
Monica Bodden
"The house just started making a cracking noise and then it collapse?"
Voice of: Mother of Briton Cordova
"Yes it collapsed."
Monica Bodden
"Your boys were playing downstairs under the house?"
Voice of: Mother of Briton Cordova
"Yes they were playing downstairs with some little puppies that was there."
Monica Bodden
"Two of them?"
Voice of: Mother of Briton Cordova
"Yes, my grandson and my son."
Voice of: Mother of Briton Cordov
"The neighbors came and her older son pulls up the flooring and they took out the child. Our cousins had come because somebody had call them and told them that the house fell and the kids were underneath, so they grab the kids and rushed them to the hospital. They were performing CPR and Briton but nothing happened. They got to the hospital and they started to do chest compression and then he revived."
Monica Bodden
"He was already turning blue?"
Voice of: Mother of Briton Cordov
"Right, he was already turning blue and after that everything was quick - they work very quickly on them and they made the decision that he had to come to the city for a cat scan. They did the cat scan and they did the ultrasound, they did x-ray and there is swelling on the brain, there is a fracture in the neck, there is a collapse right lung, he has head trauma and stomach injury, he has face injury - he got hot with one of the board across his eyes. He is on the machines and stuff and the doctor say that they don't see any brain damage but they can't tell because he suffered cardiac arrest and they are not sure for how long so they don't know how much if any - if he have brain damage. We just have to wait and see."
Monica Bodden
"Was this an old house or?"
Voice of: Mother of Briton Cordov
"The house is 5 years old and it's one of those Mennonite zinc house but they lumber is solid wood and the posts were the problem - they were rotten, we didn't know it was that rotten. We went back to the house and we saw the post looks like biscuit."
We will keep you posted on little 10 year old Briton's condition.
