Blog Posts in July, 2011
Posted on Jul 31, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
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 By Drowning Lawyer
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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Posted on Jul 28, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Officials are looking into the drowning which occurred in a Fall River public pool to determine if the six lifeguards on duty acted improperly. Initially unreported when this odd incident occurred, ...
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Posted on Jul 27, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
After Ayden Anderson, 22 months, of Bloomingdale, fell into a neighborhood swimming pool, EMS was summoned to the residence and crews performed resuscitation techniques as they transported him to ...
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Posted on Jul 27, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
After Ayden Anderson, 22 months, of Bloomingdale, fell into a neighborhood swimming pool, EMS was summoned to the residence and crews performed resuscitation techniques as they transported him to ...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A boy on the beach at Sandy Point State Park in Maryland was playing with a ball in the water when he disappeared beneath the surface and drowned, reports say. The boy, Saquan L. Kennedy, 6, of ...
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Posted on Jul 24, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Following the mysterious drowning death in Hollywood recently, a woman who was related faces obstruction charges after reports say police feel she impeded their investigation. The woman, Shakira ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Ten months after the drowning of an Alberta schoolteacher at Shelter Bay, British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are now classifying the death as a homicide. The victim, Laura Letts ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A man trained as a paramedic performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on his two-year-old son and revived him after he was found floating lifeless in pool during a Fourth of July picnic. Reports say ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A Chico, California man drowned in pool just two days after a first droning was reported just a short distance away in Tehama County. The man, identified by the Butte County Coroner's Office as Gary ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A West Des Moines, Iowa younster died in a metro pool last month after being found floating face down. The Boy, Kaden Danielsm, was found face-down at the Valley View Aquatics Center on 81st Street ...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
The family of a youngster who drowned in a Trenton public pool last summer has filed suit against the city, the pool administrator and six lifeguards with negligence, reports say. Three-year-old ...
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Posted on Jul 16, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A 28-year-old man drowned early in June at Johnson Creek Reservoir, in Wyoming, when he failed in an attempt to swim the width of the seven-acre reservoir, reports say. The body of Steven Kendrix, 28, ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A Tulsa, Oklahoma man who disappeared recently while doing volunteer work with the Department of Fish and Wildlife in the Cimarron River, has been found drowned, reports say. Twenty-two year-old Tulsa ...
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Posted on Jul 12, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A five-year-old Fort Collins, Colorado boy got very lucky recently when an off-duty Poudre Fire Authority firefighter saved his life from a near-drowning. Firefighter Michael Dairon, who was evidently ...
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Posted on Jul 10, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A young Morton, AZ youth died while swimming several yards away from the shore of Roosevelt State Park lake, reports say. The youth, Steven Hackler, 17, reportedly went under water for an instant, ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
The body of an elderly white male was discovered in the Susquehanna River after when a boater from the Highspire Boat Club first spotted it. The boater called 911 and waited as emergency services ...
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Posted on Jul 6, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Four males, tossed into the water at Illinois' Rock Cut State Park when their canoe capsized, were the source of an emergency call when one of the men went missing. Illinois Conservation Police were ...
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Posted on Jul 4, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Lake Weir divers found the bodies of two drowning victims at Carney Island Park recently. reports say. Unfortunately, reports also say the victims had evidently gone to the park as a memorial to ...
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Posted on Jul 2, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A 12-year-old boy suffered a near-drowning recently after a hectic 20-minute rescue effort by several Marion County Lake neighbors who helped lake staff rescue the boy at the lake's swimming beach. ...
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Posted on Jul 2, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Police are continuing to investigate a drowning at a Veterans Pool at Lafayette Park in Fall River, Mass. that occurred last week. The discovery of her body two days later - even while swimmers were ...
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