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AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD local boy is facing life as a paraplegic after he fractured his neck in a 4,5 metre fall from a tree in the Imhoff Caravan Park in Kommetjie.

Paramedics Ian Klopper and Rob de Wet from Emergency Medical Training (EMT) were on the scene in five minutes after recei?ving the call last Monday afternoon.

"When we arrived, we found the boy with a fractured collar bone and wrist as well as a fractured neck vertebra. We stabilised him on the scene but decided it best to have him transported via helicopter to Groote Schuur Hospital for further treatment," says EMT paramedic Rob de Wet.

Proprietor of the park, Anne Anderson, says they are currently praying for a miracle for the young man, whom she has known for the last two years.

"I have no idea what he was doing in the tree. I guess like all boys he liked climbing things. Doctors are not saying much at this stage, but we are all praying for his full reco?very."

"His mother, who was on vacation at the time, is currently on her way back home and his sister is constantly at his side," Anderson said last week.

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