Spring Valley, NY – VIN News has confirmed that Reuven Herbst, the five year old Spring Valley boy who was critically injured after coming into contact with a live power line during Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28, has died from his injuries.
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Reuven had encountered the live wire while walking through a puddle with his father, Yehuda, near the family’s home at Merrick Drive and Union Road, and Yehuda Herbst was also injured by the downed power line. Reuven was taken to the pediatric burn unit at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla where he had remained in critical condition until he succumbed to his injuries this afternoon.
50 year old neighbor David Reichenberg was killed when he tried to rescue the boy from the live wire almost two weeks ago.
BD”H, let him ba a meilitz yoisher for us yiden, and destroy all the bad gazeiros,
BD”E
Oh what a shock!
BD”E. May the family have a Nechama!
wow! nebech burech dayan emes
burich dien hoemes soooo sad now its both but no one shulde ever think that mr reichberg died for nothing
wow! what a shock BDE!
BD”H
from this hopefully lessons can be learned to prevent or minimize this from happening again.
if it could have been prevented
The passing of little Reuven Herbst only compounds this already horrible tragedy. May his family have the strength to go on and know of no more sorrows.
Bd”h very sad news. Leds hope this young child will be a miltes yoshe now for klall yisreal
Any one who knows the levahye details should please post
BD”H Oh! How terrible
Too many of our children died this summer in Avoidable tragedies.
Levayhe will be tomorrow morning at 9:30 in monsey. BT
levayhe is at 9:30 2 kakiat lane monsey ny
I am deeply saddened by this, not hearing anything made me very hopeful he was recovering. I was saying Tehillim for him since the accident, but it was not to be. BDE. May we only hear of simchos.