GRAND LAKE, Colo. - The frantic 9-1-1 call of a mother whose child was run over by a moose near Grand Lake was released Friday.What started as a day of fun Thursday at a pond at Pine Beach, ended with a 2-and-a-half-year old airlifted to Children's Hospital in Aurora.
" 9-1-1. What is your emergency?" asked a dispatcher.
"...I need to get the ambulance to meet me on the way to Grandby Medical. My son was just hurt by a moose!" screams a panicked mother, identified only as Kyle.
She says her two sons walked ahead to the water while she blew up their raft.
"My older son said that he was in the water and my other son was standing on the shore and the moose came up behind him and rammed him from the back of the head," she said.
Kyle then races her injured son to the hospital. "He's in the car with me. He has a bloody nose. And he has, it feels like his skull is cracked." She says one side of his head is swollen.
Kyle says the family goes to Pine Beach all the time and has never had problems with the moose.
While on hold, you hear the only witness to the injury--the child's 6-year-old brother. "I don't think we're going to make it!" screams the boy.
Then, his mother asking him questions. "And the moose just came up behind him?" "Yes," cries the child. "And they rammed him?"
"Yes!" he yells.
The mom is driving to meet an ambulance. It's time that proves excruciatingly slow.
"He's bleeding out of his mouth really badly," says Kyle.
"If a moose hits a 2-year-old, I'm concerned, okay? she says. The dispatcher agrees.
Nearly nine minutes later, help arrives.
The Division of Wildlife searched for the suspected female moose to put it down, but never found it.
DOW suspects the moose was spooked and trying to run away.
In a statement Friday, the boy's family thanked people for their concern and well wishes.
They say he is doing well and they're happy to be back home.
They also ask for their privacy.
" 9-1-1. What is your emergency?" asked a dispatcher.
"...I need to get the ambulance to meet me on the way to Grandby Medical. My son was just hurt by a moose!" screams a panicked mother, identified only as Kyle.
She says her two sons walked ahead to the water while she blew up their raft.
"My older son said that he was in the water and my other son was standing on the shore and the moose came up behind him and rammed him from the back of the head," she said.
Kyle then races her injured son to the hospital. "He's in the car with me. He has a bloody nose. And he has, it feels like his skull is cracked." She says one side of his head is swollen.
Kyle says the family goes to Pine Beach all the time and has never had problems with the moose.
While on hold, you hear the only witness to the injury--the child's 6-year-old brother. "I don't think we're going to make it!" screams the boy.
Then, his mother asking him questions. "And the moose just came up behind him?" "Yes," cries the child. "And they rammed him?"
"Yes!" he yells.
The mom is driving to meet an ambulance. It's time that proves excruciatingly slow.
"He's bleeding out of his mouth really badly," says Kyle.
"If a moose hits a 2-year-old, I'm concerned, okay? she says. The dispatcher agrees.
Nearly nine minutes later, help arrives.
The Division of Wildlife searched for the suspected female moose to put it down, but never found it.
DOW suspects the moose was spooked and trying to run away.
In a statement Friday, the boy's family thanked people for their concern and well wishes.
They say he is doing well and they're happy to be back home.
They also ask for their privacy.
