Orange County: A Short Story

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My incident was located in Orange County. Two years ago me and my family were driving up to L.A my grandma called that my grandpa was in the hospital and we were in a car crash in orange county so, then we rushed to the hospital after because the car crash wasn't big but my family had some little incidents. I am choosing this story because this was a very interesting story about what happened to me and my family. The background story was about my great grandpa he had a heart attack and he almost died but soon enough the ambulance came. It was the most devastating day and night of my life

This is my incident story based on my car crash and grandpa that was 72 years old and the year of 2015. I was only 8 at the time.

Two years ago in Orange County me and my family were going up for a tournament for my sister because she won all of her games and they had to win to go to Bakersfield to win.

We were driving to one of her soccer games that one of my older sisters had. It was very important to her and my dad because he was the coach and she was one of the top players, so she had to get up there and get in the game.

While we were driving we heard loud sounds of a car we didn't know what it was, so we just kept driving. Until we hear that
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My grandma was crushed heart broken, sad she was scared for him, even my family. We were very worried for him the doctors told us he was ok . We stayed there for about an hour or so just to keep company. Our grandma told us what had happened to my great grandpa. It was a devastating that day and night. My grandpa has had a heart attack in the mall and he couldn't breath. Thankfully the cops were right there and knew how to do their job and do CPR on my grandpa. The cops saved my grandpa's life. This took place in a mall in riverside, but thankfully there were security there. It was horrifying when having two incidents at the same time in the same

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