Declan Sullivan

Strong storm of wind swept Notre Dame in the practice field for football before the tower toppled, killing a student who was filming and a team of the tower, said the university athletic director Thursday.
Died Declan Sullivan, a member of 20 years of Long Grove, Illinois, on Wednesday at a hospital in South Bend after the lifting hydraulic scissors was in decline in more than one compound exercise LaBar. The Director Jack Swarbrick sports there will be a full investigation, but did not specify who is responsible for allowing the student to use the elevator.
Speaking to reporters for the first time since the accident, described Swarbrick normal practice that soon became the chaos on Wednesday. He said he was walking along the football field when suddenly, the wind picked up and equipment began to fly.
“. I turned to face north and witnessed the explosion of an exceptionally large wind things started flying out of me that had been fixed for all practices – Containers Gatorade, towels, etc. I have noticed in the netting before the start of another goal to bend significantly, and I heard a crash, “he said.
Swarbrick said the training of medical staff and trainers, coachers, players responded to Sullivan, but after emergency workers arrived, the team returned to the field until rescuers could help the student. Sullivan was taken to a hospital in South Bend, but Swarbrick said he had received a call from the ambulance before they reach that Sullivan was no longer breathing.
The National Weather Service in the wind and speed of 51 miles per hour at the time of lifting hydraulic shears, which can reduce or increase depending on needs, fell to the ground. The football team practiced in the home, one day before due to difficult circumstances due to a violent storm.
It was not clear specifically authorized Sullivan to go up in the elevator scissor to practice Wednesday footage, but Swarbrick said that the decision to exercise outside and leaving it up to individual programs at the university. As a student, according to Sullivan video coordinator associated with the team.
Swarbrick said the university would review its protocol for sending people in the temporary towers. And said at least one other student was in a temporary tower.
“We’re going to look at how it was done on this day,” he said. The University also was being investigated as to whether Sullivan had been in contact with anyone when he was in the tower exercise imaging. The student, who also wrote for the student newspaper, sent messages contained in his Facebook page before the tower fell, including one described as “terrifying” being on the tower amid high winds.
The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesman Mark tendon Thursday that the agency had an investigator on the scene in South Bend. He said it was too early to say when the agency, which has the power to impose fines, and can release the report.
And intends to fight the Irish host Tulsa on Saturday as scheduled, said Swarbrick, and the team will wear decals on their helmets in honor of Sullivan. The Notre Dame to make grief counselors available for students and was planning a special Mass in memory of Sullivan on Thursday night.
He said his uncle, Mike Sullivan and parents following a meeting with officials of Notre Dame on Thursday, and the family had a lot of questions about his death, the Chicago Tribune.
“And expressed satisfaction when I knew it was going in the field of media-related. I could see he was just having a lot of fun taking photos and filming,” said Miley Tribune.
Gamper said Matt, editor of the Observer newspaper, the independent student newspaper of the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary’s College, Sullivan was majoring in marketing and film and had written about the arts and entertainment events to the newspaper over two years.
“He is very enthusiastic and really child-driven, and that really showed through for us in his writings. Has a lot of enthusiasm and energy of the events and the topics covered,” said Jumper.
“Those who know him best describe him as passionate, a really fun guy to be around,” said Jumper.
The newspaper said about 200 people attended the Mass for Sullivan Wednesday night in the church of his dreams. After that, processing to come to campus Grotto candles, where about 150 students recited part of the Rosary.
“It was Sullivan, Declan, vital bright, dedicated young man and will miss him very much.” Said University President Rev. John Jenkins, Thursday.