Ree Drummond has informed her fans of the circumstances of her husband and cousin after they were both involved in a vehicle accident near her family’s farm in Pawhuska, Okla.
“I want to thank you all for your prayers for our family,” the author wrote in a Facebook update on Thursday. ‘Caleb and Ladd are in the hospital, but we think they’ll both be fine. As a family, we thank you today and know that things could have been much worse. ‘
“Thank you so much for your love and kindness. It means a lot,” she concluded.
Fox News confirmed on Wednesday that Ladd and Caleb were both injured in the crash that occurred that afternoon.
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Pawhuska’s fire department confirmed that Caleb was taken to hospital by ambulance after being put out of a vehicle when two fire trucks collided.
According to a report from Oklahoma Highway Patrol, there are injuries to his ‘head, inside the torso, arm and leg’.
Ladd, Ree’s 52-year-old husband, was also taken to hospital but refused treatment as his injuries were not serious.
Ree Drummond and Ladd Drummond have been married for 25 years.
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According to local Fox23 news, two fire trucks collided on County Road N3660 while responding to a fire near the property.
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“Due to the strong wind on a dirt road, the visibility decreased, causing Vehicle-1 and Vehicle-2 to hit from the front,” troops said in a statement to the sales area. “[Caleb Drummond] was thrown out about 70 feet from the point of rest. ‘
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Drummond is a TV personality and food writer known as the “Pioneer Woman”. It turns out that she and her nephew are close, as she has mentioned him several times on her blog.
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In 2018, she described how he sees him graduating as ‘surreal’ and four years earlier she called Caleb ‘his father’s clone in every way’.
Fox News’ Nate Day contributed to this report.