LITTLE PLACED IN STEP-DOWN UNIT - Remains In Coma

(12/11/2002)
Grantsville resident Gene Little, about 35, has been placed in a step-down unit in a Morgantown hospital, suffering severe trauma from a gas meter explosion last week.

A family spokesperson said "He remains in a coma,." but efforts to obtain responses from him seems encouraging.

Little, an employee of Creston Oil and Gas of Grantsville, was life-flighted from Smithville, Ritchie County, shortly after the accident.

Family members are at his bedside and continue to request prayer for his recovery.