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Teaching a tough message
Ghost Out event brings harsh realities to life
GHOST OUT 2018
Forsyth County Firefighters use extrication equipment to remove the door from a vehicle at the annual Ghost Out event. - photo by Alexander Popp
The first thing one hears: screaming, crying and a frantic 911 call. Two vehicles sit nose to nose, smashed together head on, with windshields cracked and hoods buckled into unrecognizable shapes. Through spider webs of broken glass, one can clearly make out the shape of deployed airbags. All the while, hundreds of men, women and children witness the scene in near complete silence from metal bleachers, just feet away.