White Oak woman recounts terror of two kids tumbling from third-floor window

By Mon Valley Independent

By Justin Vellucci

Trib Total Media

Two White Oak children might owe their lives to Andi Cartwright’s busted pair of Bluetooth headphones.

Skies were sunny and temperatures lingered in the mid-80s last Monday afternoon as Cartwright strolled down Ohio Avenue in the Mon Valley town she’s called home for 22 years. As she walked, listening to music to perk up her heart rate, her headphones suddenly stopped working.

“All right, I’ll listen to the birds,” she remembered thinking.

About 15 second...

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