Hey folks, I am updating the audio for this message because things have changed. It's been a few days.

And I just want to make sure that the latest information is available to those of you who are considering helping my brother's family in this time of, I would say, great need.

So a couple of days ago, just last Friday, today's November, or November, February 24th,

2026. So just last Friday, my brother, he was up north in Maine, which is where he's from, but not

where he lives. He goes up there every year to ice fish with two buddies of his. So he was out on the

ice in a little wooden hut. I imagine

I've never actually seen this hut, but ice fishing is not my thing. It's their thing.

He was ice fishing, and he jumped on his snowmobile to go back to, to go across the lake,

to go back to get supplies or something, and then come back after he was done.

All I know is he was leaving, and then he was going to come back with more stuff, bait, I don't know, fish.

I don't know what you use when you're ice fishing.

I imagine sandwiches or something, because ice fishing is probably like every other kind of fishing.

It's a lot of sitting around and waiting for fish to do what fish do, which is hopefully bite your looers. God, I'm going on about ice fishing more than I should be.

Anyway, he puts his helmet on, he sets out on the ice. He doesn't strap his helmet together.

Like he doesn't put it or he doesn't clasp it, I guess.

So he hits a pressure pocket or a snowbank or something that's on the lake and it flips his, it flips him over the handlebars.

It stops the snowmobile, throws him over the top of it.

Helmet comes off because it's not latched.

He hits the ice with great force, multiple

contusions across his chest and abdomen, facial bones broken all over the place, and most

importantly, he fractures his C4 vertebrae, which means he broke his neck, essentially. Now, it's not funny, but he's actually the second person in my family to break their neck up north during the winter while being out in the snowy weather. So maybe my family will no longer continue to be out in the snow. It might, maybe this is a sign.

In any event, he is trauma-hawked to a hospital that I'm not going to identify, but it's there in Maine.

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