Jeremy Renner thanks his fans for their sympathies in his first social media post after snow plowing accident - CNN

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Actor Jeremy Renner thanked fans from his infirmary furniture Tuesday arsenic helium continued to recover from 2 surgeries pursuing being injured by a snowplow instrumentality successful what officials described arsenic “a tragic accident.”

“Thank you each for your benignant words. Im excessively messed up present to type. But I nonstop emotion to you all,” Renner wrote successful a caption nether a selfie photograph showing him seemingly successful a infirmary bed.

The “Hawkeye” histrion was injured connected New Year’s Day adjacent his Nevada location portion helium was clearing snowfall from a backstage driveway to assistance household members permission his location aft gathering for the holidays, according to his publicist, Samantha Mast.

“Jeremy is making affirmative advancement and is awake, talking and successful bully spirits,” Mast said a connection released Tuesday evening. “He remains successful ICU successful captious but unchangeable condition. He is overwhelmed by the showing of emotion and support. The household asks for your continued thoughts portion helium heals with his adjacent loved ones.”

Renner, 51, was tally implicit by his snowcat, an engine-powered instrumentality utilized to wide snow, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said connected Tuesday during a quality conference.

At immoderate point, the instrumentality started to rotation distant portion Renner was not successful the driver’s seat, Balaam said. He was injured arsenic helium tried to get backmost into the machine, Balaam explained. Renner’s household members were with him erstwhile helium was injured.

A Renner spokesperson antecedently told CNN that helium sustained “blunt thorax trauma and orthopedic injuries.” So far, the histrion has undergone 2 surgeries related to the injuries, a root adjacent to the histrion told CNN.

Minutes earlier 9 a.m. connected Sunday, authorities received connection of the mishap done a 911 telephone reporting a clang involving a snowcat and a pedestrian connected Mount Rose Highway, Balaam said Tuesday.

Even though it was not snowing astatine that time, that road was closed and astatine slightest a twelve cars were stranded owed to the terrible wintertime upwind that was hitting the area, Balaam said.

Due to these conditions, a chopper landed successful the vicinity of the road astatine 9:37 a.m., and Renner was taken to a Reno-area infirmary astatine 9:56 a.m., Balaam said.

At the clip of the injury, parts of occidental Nevada were blanketed with snow. The Reno country received betwixt 6 and 12 inches of snowfall astatine elevations beneath 5,000 feet betwixt New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and up to 18 inches astatine higher elevations, according to the National Weather Service successful Reno.

“He was being a large neighbour and helium was plowing those roads for his neighbor,” Balaam said of Renner.

Authorities bash not judge Renner was intoxicated during the incident, with Balaam calling it “a tragic accident.”

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office has Renner’s taken the snowcat to analyse it to “rule retired immoderate imaginable mechanical failure,” which is simply a mean portion of the probe with this severity of injuries, Balaam said.

During an quality connected “CNN This Morning” Wednesday, Balaam said the histrion is precise progressive successful the Reno community.

“He’s 1 of our honorary deputies present astatine the Sheriff’s Office,” Balaam said. “That’s 1 of the nonprofits [for] members successful our community. And they assistance america bash ‘Shop For The Sheriff,’ wherever they walk $50,000 and donate it and he’s 1 of those members. He does a batch for our community.”

“When I took bureau successful 2019 helium showed up for ‘Shop For The Sheriff’ and you should spot the kids and the parents,” Balaam added. “He took the clip retired of his engaged days to springiness autographs and store with kids. He does a batch successful the assemblage and what I genuinely bask astir Mr. Renner is simply a batch of times helium does it and nary 1 knows. He does it retired of the kindness of his heart.”

A time aft the accident, Renner’s household released a connection thanking infirmary unit and archetypal responders portion the histrion remained hospitalized.

“Jeremy’s household would similar to explicit their gratitude to the unthinkable doctors and nurses looking aft him, Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue, Washoe County Sheriff, Reno City Mayor Hillary Schieve and the Carano and Murdock families,” a connection from his spokesperson read. “They are besides tremendously overwhelmed and appreciative of the outpouring of emotion and enactment from his fans.”