Jospeh Furtek's family started a fundraiser for him after the boulders hospitalized him for nearly a month.
Confined to a hospital bed, Jospeh Furtek is grateful he's alive after a freak accident in the San Bernardino County mountains. 'I'm very, very blessed to be alive,' he said. 'I don't remember any of this, but two large boulders vell on my vehicle.'From his room at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Furtek recounted his story of survival after his van was crushed by a pair of boulders on Highway 18 near Crestline.
18, Furtek has been able to remember some elements, like two good Samaritans behind him stopping and calling for help. They also held his hand until rescuers arrived, who spent hours trying to save him. 'I had compound fractures all the way down my right leg in fact they were going to amputate my leg at the scene because I was losing so much blood from this leg,' he said. 'There were so many compound fractures.
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