Recent Posts in Lake Drowning Category
Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
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 9, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
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 By Drowning Lawyer
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 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 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 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 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 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 Jun 30, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Two bodies of apparent drowning victims Pauline Yambao, 44, and Kenneth Stephens Sr., 55, were recovered late this spring during the second day of a search in Lake Weir, reports say. Reports say that ...
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Posted on Apr 30, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Lake Lagonda, Florida deputies found the body of a man who may have drowned in the lake last earlier last month, reports say. A 911 call came into emergency services and the Interlachen Police ...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Tairino Masters was found floating face-down in a lagoon at Spirits Bay, just after New Year's. The two-year-old was barely breathing when his rescuers dragged him from the water, reports say. To get ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Sean Ross McGowan, a six-year-old from Dublin who was left with 95% brain damage after he nearly drowned while on an outing in 2007, has settled a court action against for just under a million ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Former police officer Kenneth Reda, 38, pleaded guilty earlier this month to second degree homicide by vessel, tampering with evidence, violating the oath of a police officer and three counts of ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2010 By Drowning Injury Attorney
A tragedy was avoided last month when three visitors took swift action to save a drowning man's life at Osoyoos Lake, near Brookvale Campground in Vancouver, Canada last month. When a 39-year-old man ...
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