{"id":156403,"date":"2026-04-03T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:34:07","slug":"10-year-old-northeast-philadelphia-plane-crash-survivor-to-ring-bell-before-sixers-timberwolves-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156403\/","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old Northeast Philadelphia plane crash survivor to ring bell before Sixers-Timberwolves game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young survivor of the Northeast Philly plane crash will take center court Friday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena, where 10-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/ramesses-vazquez-viana-northeast-philadelphia-plane-crash-one-year-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ramesses Vazquez-Viana<\/a>\u00a0will be honored before the Philadelphia 76ers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves game.<\/p>\n<p>Ramesses will ring the ceremonial bell to kick off the Sixers&#8217; game.<\/p>\n<p>Ramesses has been through so much and continues to heal from severe burns suffered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/northeast-philadelphia-plane-crash-one-year-later-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 2025 plane crash<\/a>\u00a0in Northeast Philadelphia. He suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/ramesses-vasquez-viana-philadelphia-plane-crash-burn-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">burns to more than 90% of his body<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly a year of treatment in Boston and more than 40 surgeries, Ramesses is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/ramesses-vasquez-viana-philadelphia-plane-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">making a remarkable recovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers and Timberwolves tip off at 7 p.m. Friday in South Philadelphia. CBS News Philadelphia will be at the game to continue following Ramesses&#8217; journey.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young survivor of the Northeast Philly plane crash will take center court Friday night at Xfinity Mobile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5954,2327,28,69,1002,71,70,7243],"class_list":["post-156403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}