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One person died and dozens of others were injured, at least five critically, after a bus carrying a high school marching band from Long Island crashed on a New York highway and went down an embankment on Thursday afternoon, the authorities said. The bus, carrying students from Farmingdale High School, was one of six coach buses traveling to an annual marching band camp in Pennsylvania, according to a spokeswoman for the Farmingdale School District. It went off the road on a section of I-84 in the town of Wawayanda, in Orange County, a spokesman for the Slate Hill Fire Department said. Details about what caused the accident were not immediately available.
Organizations: Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale School, Slate, Fire Department Locations: Long, New York, Pennsylvania, Farmingdale, Farmingdale School District, Wawayanda, Orange County
CNN —At least one person has died and dozens more were injured when a bus carrying students rolled over on Interstate 84 in Orange County, New York, about 75 miles north of New York City, authorities said. There were “multiple serious injuries,” New York State Police said in a news release. The bus was carrying students from Farmingdale High School in Long Island and was headed to a music event for band camp, a spokesperson from the high school confirmed to CNN. “We were informed that there had been an accident with Bus 1 en route to Greeley, PA for band camp,” Farmingdale High School spokesperson Jake Mendlinger told CNN. Kathy Hochul said she had been briefed on the incident and members of New York State police and the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services were at the scene to assist response teams.
Persons: , , Jake Mendlinger, Steven Neuhaus, Kathy Hochul Organizations: CNN, Wawayanda, Company, ” New York State Police, Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale High, “ Police, Orange, ” New York Gov, New York State, Division of Homeland Security, Emergency Services Locations: Orange County , New York, New York City, Long, Greeley , Pennsylvania, Greeley , PA, Farmingdale
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