Toddler stable after snowplow convoy escorts him to hospital

DANVILLE, Pa. — A 23-month-old Pennsylvania boy who was escorted by snowplows and state troopers 80 miles to a hospital during the powerful nor’easter is resting comfortably after treatment.

Geisinger Medical Center says Bentley Gingerlowski was born with a rare congenital heart defect. A low platelet condition caused external bleeding at the height of Tuesday’s blizzard.

His parents initially took Bentley to a hospital in East Stroudsburg. However, he needed to transfer to Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in Danville.

A convoy of plows, the Pennsylvania National Guard, the State Police and emergency vehicles escorted the child along the snowy, slushy roadways.