Drowning Accidents Blog
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
Temperatures are warming up and summer is only a few months away. This means Texas residents will soon start hitting the pools, lakes, beaches and other areas where they can cool down. It is for this ...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2012
Last month a 4-year-old-boy was pulled from the Roosevelt Outdoor Pool by a lifeguard. According to witnesses the boy’s body was “lifeless and limp.” The boy died at a local hospital ...
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Posted on Jun 11, 2012
Minneapolis – A six-year-old boy died in a swimming pool drowning earlier this month at a Hopkins Country Club where he was attending a birthday party, according to police. Sgt. Michael ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2012
Reece Mitchell, 4, of Midland, Texas, was found at the bottom of the MCM Grandé Hotel FunDome pool in Odessa recently while surrounded by numerous other guests and accompanied by siblings and ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012
A southern Indiana Holiday Inn hotel was the site of a drowning that ultimately took the life of six-year-old Ron-Deja Lynn Stevenson recently, reports say. The young girl, who actually died the next ...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012
An Embassy Suites Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama was the site of a hotel pool drowning when an 8-year-old Birmingham slipped into the water and died, reports say. The boy drowned Saturday night, said ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2012
Shauna-Kaye Williams, 16 of Newark, New Jersey, was identified as a Hotel drowning victim in a Long Beach, California Courtyard by Marriott swimming pool. Williams, 16, was found unconscious at the ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2012
Reports say a 26-year-old died while using the Radisson hotel pool in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jacob Lars Parish, a local resident who was a member of the Kalamazoo Athletic Club, a club that used the ...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2012
A creek in North Dakota claimed the lives of two men, reported as drowning victims, recently. Police were initially called to the Apple Creek Country Club, a private country club, where two men were ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2012
Joanie Logan, 3, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, died earlier this summer when she drown in a private club pool while hundreds of people swam and sunbathed nearby. The pool accident occurred on Memorial ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2012
A six-year-old child drowned in a Louisville, Kentucky area country club pool earlier this summer after rescuers found him unresponsive and half-submerged in the water. Keegan Adkins reportedly died ...
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Posted on Jan 9, 2012
A nine-year-old drowned in a Kenner, Louisiana swimming pool recently after heavy rains closed the facility and the staff had been sent home, reports say. Zaven Sears and a friend had ridden their ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2012
A 16-year-old Tennessee boy died while on a white-water rafting trip with other teens attending a popular Georgia camp recently. Andrew Silvershein, 16 of Davie, Tenn, was on the Ocoee River in ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2011
Emergency medical personnel were called to Woodhaven Country Club on June 24, 2011 to assist Keegan Adkins after he found unconscious in the swimming pool. Witnesses state the boy was pulled from the ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011
Reports say the body of a 61-year-old transient whose body was found in the Skagit River near a Mount Vernon, Washington park was a drowning victim. Jose Jimenez II was discovered by a city parks ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011
The names of drowning victims who died in boating accidents on the Fourth of July weekend in Waupaca County, Wisconsin were released recently, according to reports. Daniel Nolan, 57, of Manawa WI ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2011
Pennsylvania authorities shut down three different day care facilities in western Pennsylvania after a seven-year-old boy nearly drowned. The boy, who nearly drowned during an overnight camping trip, ...
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Posted on Aug 11, 2011
A Newark, NJ man was identified by officials recently as the man who drowned last weekend while on a family outing at the Tomahawk Lake water park. The victim, Marc Broadus, 49, drowned in the ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2011
Morrow County, Oregon Undersheriff Steve Myren pulled a Walla Walla man from the chilly waters of the Columbia River during a Fourth of July celebration, earlier this month, after filling in at the ...
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Posted on Aug 7, 2011
Eugene Smith, 26, of Dyersburg, MO, drowned earlier this month at a popular river in Missouri. Reports say Smith was attempting to swim across the river near Van Buren, MO. when he began to struggle ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2011
A 15-year-old boy drowned after being pulled from a swimming pool at an apartment complex in Portland, Maine, reports say. Emergency services were called earlier this month regarding a possible ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011
Amilcar Guardado, 37, of Los Angeles, was found floating face-down in the water near the Keyesville north campground on the Kern River at the beginning of the month, making him the first of three to ...
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Posted on Aug 1, 2011
A 30-year-old woman accused of drowning her two-and-a-half-year old daughter has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial, reports say. The woman, Claudia Andrea Pedreros, is accused of murder in ...
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Posted on Jul 31, 2011
The drowning death of a four-year-old boy in a backyard pool in Groton, Massachusetts over the Fourth of July weekend has been ruled an accident, reports say. The boy was pulled from the pool on ...
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Posted on Jul 30, 2011
A dive team recovered the body of a four-year-old girl who had been last spotted at the edge of the water at Monterey's County Nacimiento Lake on Sunday, July 3. The girl, Araceli Garcia of ...
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