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The bell just rang, and 9-year-old Steven Torres is waiting to walk home with Mr. Gupton, the principal at Tumbleweed Elementary School in Phoenix.
Outside the school, Nick Gupton watches two buses fill with children. He waves and shouts, "Thanks for coming to school today!"
Then, he quickly makes his way to the field out back, where Steven is waiting, along with hundreds of other students. .
A contractor was critically injured Thursday afternoon when a cable snapped and struck him in the head while he was working in an underground vault at Syracuse Universitys steam plant, according to a city fire official. The man, whose name and age were not immediately released, had gone down into the vault, which is about 12 feet below ground at the plant on Almond Street between Burt and Taylor streets, near the SU campus. The accident happened shortly after 1:30 p.m. while the contractor was doing routine maintenance on pipes and valves with another worker, said Deputy Fire Chief Robert Bratt. The cable was hooked to a winch and it was under tension, Bratt said. It snapped and acted just like a whip. The man was knocked unconscious, and his co-worker, who also was not identified, called for help.
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