TOWN OF WALLKILL – Top officials of the Farmingdale school district came to Orange County on Monday to say ‘thank you’ to the medical staff at the hospitals that treated students injured when a bus carrying them to band camp in Pennsylvania careened down on Interstate 84 in Wawayanda on September 21.
Forty students were treated at area hospitals, but two women, a music teacher and a chaperone, lost their lives in the crash.
Superintendent of Schools Paul Defendini and two other school officials addressed staff at Garnet Health Medical Center.
“You gave our kids back to us, and I know that it might be part of the routine in the course of your business, or you may think of it as you just wake up in the morning and set your alarm, and you come to work and you do your job, but I’m telling you that you are heroes in our eyes, and we’re forever thankful for what you did for us, and we just wanted to come here to tell you that,” Defendini said.
From an outside perspective, as Superintendent Defendini said, “This might be your typical day-to-day, but for me personally you have restored my faith in humanity, knowing there are people whose lives are dedicated to helping others and I will never be able to thank you, ever, for what you have done for us.”
The school district officials also visited Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Bon Secours and Westchester Medical Center with the same message of thanks.
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