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  • Glenview Park District Pools Closed due to Drowning

    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 a short time after being pulled from the water. The boy was visiting the pool with 19 other children through a day care center camp. District officials have banned the summer camp groups from three pools following the ...
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  • Woman's Drowning Possibly Ignored

    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, the story began when a boy evidently alerted lifeguards to the missing swimmer. The policies are reported to be clear that when a swimmer is reported missing, pool rules require lifeguards to ...
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  • Youth Dies in Public Pool

    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 when a pool patron reportedly bumping into Daniels, who was floating in the water. The patron turned Daniels over and realized that his face was purple and that he was drowning. After immediately ...
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  • Drowned Youth's Family Sues City

    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 Darren Horton, Jr., thrashed for several minutes, desperately trying to keep his head above the water while people swam around him, ignoring his thrashing for at least four minutes, reports say. Horton ...
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  • Man Tries to Swim Across Reservoir; Drowns

    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, of Wheatland, was recovered early the following morning by rescue divers. Emergency services was called for a possible drowning after receiving reports at the Laramie County Sheriff's Office that ...
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  • Woman Drowns in Public Pool, Is Undiscovered for Two Days While Swimmers Pack Pool

    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 in the same pool with the dead woman - has police baffled. Pool experts were on hand at the pool to take water samples and to inspect the slide that apparently started the cascading sequence of events ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Sun Glare Allows Girl to Drown

    Eleven-year-old Mariyama Suleman’s first trip to a swimming pool ended with her at the bottom of Knickerbacker Park Pool last year. The outing with her family left her dead. Although she was still alive when the lifeguards rescued her, she later died at Albany Medical Center Hospital from brain injuries resulting from lack of oxygen. The incident has been blamed on glare and a lap lane stripe that ...
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  • Local Resident Suffers Near-Drowning in Stafford, TX

    While excercising in an LA Fitness swimming pool south of Houston, a 70-year-old woman was nearly drown , prompting a gym member to perform CPR and resuscitate her at the scene. After another swimmer saw the victim in distress, he pulled her from the water. Another gym member -- a registered nurse -- performed CPR on the victim, who was breathing but unconscious when Missouri City police arrived. ...
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  • School Trip Claims Drowning Victim

    Montreal Police are reportedly investigating a drowning that occurred at the popular Mont Saint-Sauveur Water Park late last month. When several attendants began screaming when they noticed a body in the water, officials scrambled to the scene and discovered a nine-year-old boy, who was found unconscious in the park's wave pool. Although lifeguards dove in to try to save him, even performing CPR ...
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  • Six-Year-Old DC Girl Drowns in Public Pool

    A six-year-old girl who was pulled from a public pool in Northeast Washington DC and was taken to the hospital in critical condition, died a day after the accident, reports say. An investigation at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center in Washington DC seeks to discover exactly what led to the drowning of the girl, whose name has not yet been released. Reports say that the six-year-old girl had ...
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