An accident that happened in a matter of seconds changed a Sandy girl's life forever.
SANDY — An accident that happened in a matter of seconds changed a Sandy girl's life forever. On July 4, 2016, Giselle Sullivan and her family were enjoying fireworks in their backyard when an aerial tipped over.The now 12-year-old is completely blind in her left eye. She doesn't remember much about the pain she was in but her mother, Heather Sullivan, can recall the moment her daughter was hit.
"Your whole life for your child can change in a second," Heather Sullivan said. "When we realized what was happening, I went to go shield and put my hands around her, which was probably seconds, but in that time she had already been hit."" explosion ricocheted one of the aerials, caused it to tip over and then it just started misfiring in all directions," Heather Sullivan said. "Giselle's eye was swollen shut.
"You can just put some big heavy rocks around it, or like a brick or something like that on four sides just so that the box can't tip over," Sullivan said.
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