Blog Posts in June, 2011

Drowning Victims Recovered in Lake Weir

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 Yambao, who was Kenneth Sr.'s sister-in-law, was swimming with a young child when he reportedly panicked. When Stephens saw the distress, he jumped in after Yambao and took the child to a nearby boat. ...

Pro Football Player Saves Drowning Child

Reports say Kansas City Chiefs NFL Pro Football player Leonard Pope saved a child from drowning at a Georgia swimming pool earlier this month. Anne Moore, the mother of the rescued child, took her son, 6-year-old Bryson, to a pool party one Saturday and saw him go underwater. She began screaming for help. Pope, who is also from the same town where the party was held, Americus, GA, dove into the ...

CPR Saves Boy From Drowning

A swift reaction by a camper saved a four-year-old who had sunk to the bottom of the pool, unconscious. Sandra Loza, of Spring Valley, ONT, was in a Marseilles campground pool early in June when a youngster, Colton Hecker of Ottawa, walked away from his grandmother, Tina Larsen, and re-entered the water without supervision. Loza, who was with her own children swimming nearby, noticed Colton ...

Death of toddler ruled a drowning

The death of a toddler who died earlier this month after family members found her in a pool behind her North Charleston, S.C. home has been ruled an accidental drowning, reports say. 21-month-old Nora Flores died was pronounced dead from drowning about 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 th , 2011 at Medical University Hospital. Even though Charleston County EMS failed to resuscitate the unconscious ...

Sunbather Saves Man From Downing

A Michigan man was saved from drowning late last month when a nearby sunbather who knew CPR rescued the man from the water and single-handedly resuscitated him. Michael Flowers was relaxing on a Wolf Lake beach when Joshua Huddlestun, 25, of Egelston, Mich., somehow inhaled water and was motionless in the water. Flowers, who knew CPR, helped restrieve the man. She then began to work on the man, ...