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CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI — Two Wisconsin children are fighting for their lives after being crushed by falling snow.
Norma Nolt, 7, and Nelson Nolt, 10, were inside of a silo room on their family's Chippewa County farm Saturday when snow fell from the barn onto the silo room roof, which then collapsed on top of them.
"Initially we thought it was a skid steer farm accident," explained Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk.
"It was later determined that the children were on the skid steer that was not running. It was parked in a shed between the silo and the barn," said Kowalczyk.
After the children's father, Laymar Nolt, came down from his farm's silo, he found his children trapped between beams and the skid steer.
They were found without a pulse and not breathing, but were resuscitated. As of last check, they were both listed in critical condition.
The high temperature at the time of the incident was 43 degrees, according to The Chippewa Herald.
"So all of the snow came off the (metal) barn roof at one time instead of slowly melting and dripping off," Ronald Patten, chief of the Boyd-Edson-Delmar Fire Department told the Herald.
Contributing: The Associated Press
