A Canadian paramedic unknowingly treated her own daughter in a fatal car accident.

Jayme Erickson was first to attend the Nov. 15 crash north of Calgary in which the passenger was trapped inside the vehicle with severe injuries. She then sat in the car and tended to the trapped woman until further medical teams arrived.

Tragically, the paramedic was not aware that the passenger involved was her 17-year-old daughter Montana — who was unrecognizable because of the severity of her injuries.

“Jayme unknowingly was keeping her own daughter alive,” Richard Reed, a paramedic and friend of Erickson, explained in a press conference Wednesday. He added that Erickson administered the medical treatment to buy the victim’s family time to say goodbye.

It wasn’t until Erickson returned home that she was met by Canadian police — and the devastating news of her daughter’s death.

“She was a fighter and she fought until the day that she died and she was beautiful,” Erickson said during the conference. “She was so beautiful. If she ever put an effort into anything she would always succeed at it.”

“We are overwhelmed with grief and absolutely gutted,” Erickson added in a GoFundMe page set up by family friend Lindsay Sandalack. “The pain I am feeling is like no pain I have ever felt, it is indescribable.”

“The critically injured patient I had just attended to, was my own flesh and blood. My only child. My mini-me. My daughter, Montana,” she continued. “Her injures [sic] were so horrific I did not even recognize her. I was taken to FMC to see my baby girl, and was informed her injuries were not compatible with life.”

Erickson added that she “cannot help but be angry for the short amount of time I was given with her.” Her emotional post questioned where Montana would be in adulthood — graduated, married, and living a happy life.

“I will cherish the memories we made and the time we had together,” she added. “I am shattered. I am broken. I am missing a piece of me. I am left to pick up the pieces and expected to carry on.”

At the time of publishing, the GoFundMe had nearly reached their goal of $100,000 in donations — aimed to allow the family financial freedom as they grieve the loss of Montana.

You can access the GoFundMe here.

Two grandparents were killed in a Winston-Salem, N.C., plane crash on their way to see family for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Patty Kreher and Joe Kreher of Freeburg, Ill., were flying to the east coast Saturday to visit their son and grandchildren when their plane went down, family told WGHP, adding that the two had made the trip from St. Louis to North Carolina multiple times before.

The couple’s Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche crashed northeast of downtown, miles from the Smith Reynolds airport, around 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, the outlet shares.

A spokesperson for the Winston-Salem Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment, although the WSPD did confirm that two people died in the crash to the Winston-Salem Journal.

Data from FlightAware.com shows that the plane landed in London, Ky., an hour and 45 minutes after taking off, and looped around that airport. It was then rescheduled to land at 11:10 a.m. at Smith Reynolds.

Images from the crash show the wreck just feet away from a home, as the plane appeared to be split in half.

National Transportation Safety Board officials cleared the wreckage Monday morning, per WGHP, as footage shows the area taped off. Crew members used saws to cut the plane up before they eventually towed it away with a pickup truck.

Sergeant C.G. Byrd with North Carolina State Highway Patrol told WGHP that the plane crashed in a woodline of a residential area, although no other injuries have been reported. The pilot reportedly spoke with the control tower before the crashing, sharing that their engine was “not making as much power as the other one.”

Susan Harrison-Bailey told the Winston-Salem Journal that the plane came down near her backyard and did not hit her home. The publication reports that the crash will be investigated by the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board.

“I couldn’t tell that it was a plane,” Harrison-Bailey said. “There was a lot of smoke … I could see it was smashed into the trees. It landed straight up and down.”

The crash comes just a month after three people died when a small plane crashed into a home in Minnesota. The Cessna 172 made impact on the second floor of a Hermantown home in before coming to a halt in the residents’ backyard.

The two occupants of the home were not injured. Victims of that crash were later identified as Tyler Fretland, 32, of Burnsville, who was the airplane’s pilot, Alyssa Schmidt, 32, of St. Paul, and her brother, Matthew Schmidt, 31, of Burnsville.

A construction worker was crushed to death at Florida’s Port Tampa Bay when 6,000 pounds of lumber spilled off a forklift, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

It happened around 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, when the forklift came to a sudden stop, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The port is in south Tampa, off Hillsborough Bay.

“A person working at the port was helping clear the way for a forklift to transfer two bundles of lumber, weighing 3,000 lbs a piece,” the sheriff’s office said.

“At one point, when the forklift operator hit the brakes, the two bundles rolled forward and off the fork. The first bundle clipped the worker, while the second bundle of lumber rolled over and crushed him.”

The worker was pronounced dead after being taken to Tampa General hospital, officials said. Identities of the worker and forklift driver were not released.

Detectives are calling the incident a workplace accident.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is doing a more extensive investigation, officials said.

Port Tampa Bay, the state’s “largest cargo tonnage port,” is undergoing expansions that include “more storage and berth capacity, additional cranes, a new gate complex and trans-loading facilities.”

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An Illinois father was helping his 12-year-old daughter collect canned food donations for her Girl Scout troop when he fell out of the car and hit his head. He died five days later.

Aaron LaMore, a 45-year-old tollway supervisor and veteran, was riding in the car’s open hatchback on Nov. 6 when “he lost his footing, fell backwards out of the car onto the pavement, and struck his head on the back,” his brother-in-law, Ryan Talaga, told media outlet Patch.

“They didn’t even get to the first house,” Talaga said, adding that the car was going about 5 mph at the time.

When help arrived on the scene, LaMore was able to “pick himself off” the ground and “walk into the ambulance,” a family member wrote on a GoFundMe page set up to help his wife Erin and their daughter Mia.

Once at the hospital his condition “rapidly” declined, according to the fundraiser.

As he was awaiting transport to another hospital, LaMore — who suffered multiple skull fractures — went into cardiac arrest, according to Patch.

“His injuries were grave at that time,” Talaga told the outlet, adding that there was “irreversible damage.”

LaMore, who was a veteran and an organ donor, died on Veterans Day, leaving behind his wife of 16 years and their daughter.

“The University of Chicago held a Hero’s Walk in his honor as he saved multiple lives that day with his donation,” read a message on the GoFundMe page. “He will forever be a hero and champion.”

“This is the worst thing that could happen to my sister and my niece, but knowing that he’s able to save lives, gives them some peace,” Talaga told Patch.

Talaga remembered his brother-in-law as a “very selfless” individual, who also “loved joking around” and “being silly.”

He told Patch that the loss is especially difficult for LaMore’s daughter. “Mia was a daddy’s girl, to the nth degree,” he said.

Family members created the GoFundMe page to help cover expenses and medical bills as well as the cost of Mia’s future education.

“Their burden is heavy, and we want to help lighten the load,” read a message on the page, which has raised over $28,000 as of Friday afternoon.

According to his obituary, in lieu of flowers, loved ones are encouraging donations to Gift of Hope or the Wounded Warrior Project.

A 19-year-old New Jersey man was killed after he climbed into a Pennsylvania store dumpster and was compressed in the back of a recycling truck, authorities said.

Kellen J. Bischoff’s body was then discovered among trash recyclables at the J.P. Mascaro & Sons’ Total Recycle facility in Birdsboro on Saturday at 8:41 a.m., a statement from the Berks County District Attorney’s Office said.

Bischoff had been previously reported missing to the Kutztown Borough Police Department before his body was found, the office said.

Investigators said they learned that the Manahawkin man had been visiting a family member in Kutztown and was last seen early Saturday morning after he left a party off the campus of Kutztown University.

Surveillance video showed Bischoff was alone when he climbed into a dumpster in the back of a Dollar Tree store in Kutztown, which was later dumped into the back of a recycling truck and carried to the recycling plant where his body was discovered, the DA’s office said.

An autopsy was performed, and no foul play or unexplained injuries were observed. Toxicology results are pending.

In his obituary, Bischoff was described as having a “fun-loving attitude,” being “infectious,” and having “left an impression on all who knew him.”

After graduating from Southern Regional High School in Stafford this year, he “started to follow his passion for music” at Full Sail University in Florida.

“Continue to pound those skins our mighty Irish warrior and we will be listening and we will hear you,” the obituary added.

The recycling facility also issued a statement in response to Bischoff’s death, expressing their sympathies.

“After immediately contacting the police, we have worked closely with them and will continue to provide whatever information and cooperation is needed in their investigation of this tragic accident,” their statement said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the young man’s family.”

The investigation is ongoing.

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