Al12- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Youth. drowns
in ‘ferocious’.
creek current.

A|4- YEAR- OLD Terrace boy i is. dead after roving in

- Lakelse Lake Friday afternoon..
The -boy and his companions. had been ‘riding inner:
tubes. down. Williams Creek, which flows into the, lake
near: Gruchy” s Beach.
‘He fell. off his tube just ‘after 4 ‘pa m. “Tune 2S into 9 what ”
rescuers called - snusually turbulent’ water where the =

“The: water right at. ‘the end of the: creék “was Seo

cious," said Dave Jephson, who leads the Terrace Water.
_ Rescue. team. ars
-.. The team rushed to. ihe Take: after getting the: call. and
‘divers found the: drowning: boy before 5 pm: after what
Jephson’ estimates” ‘was a fives. to. six-minute. underwater
search. 7

—*Weo éstirnate’ She was  underwatse for F Approximately =
"45 to 50 minutes, ” he. said. - :

Efforts to resuscilate ‘the. boy began 2 as. soon as he was
pulled from. the: lake and: throughout the: “Wip'to Mills |}

Memorial ‘Hospital; whiere i continued. for fearly’ two
hours, Jephson said. .
“The ‘medical’ staff: was. ying to do everything they
— could,” he'said.--) 2°: oe
|. The: chances- of success: may have been ‘better: fa
specialized: piece | of water rescue. equipment, ‘known as .
a heated oxygen unit,’ was’. available, Jephson said: ..
Heated oxygen. ‘heips: warm: a. drowning victim from -:
the inside out — crucial-in resuscitation efforts. :
~The Terrace’ ‘Water. Rescue téam: has. such''a unit. in. its--
truck,: but Jephson: said other. team:.members. had the ©
truck that ‘day 1 near. Stewart, ‘where. they were recovering
the body ‘ofa man ‘whose car: ‘orashed June 13: into: the:
Bear River.. |=."
Mills. ‘Meroriak: “Hospital doesn" echave its own heated:
oxygen. unit: and Jephson says. he ‘plans, to push for. the
acquisition of one. «*

: “] feel they should have: that on'sité,” he said, - an o

“It’s frustrating,” Jephson. added.. “To. get out. of town .

as fast as. we did and recover. him. and. get. him to'medi:’-.

cal aid ~ it’s never been: done Faster. ‘It was s unfortunate. it
didn't: help: a eS
The- ‘boy's s young. age, , health and. water. femperature -
were all. factors ‘that’ made: him a good. candidate for-s sur...
vival, Jephson’ said. ;
“Terrace Water’ Rescue i is ‘till waiting’ to. s save its fest «
life. through an ‘underwater drowning 1 rescues. |

~ “This is:what: we've - fought. for years for: and. itained:,
for,”’: Jephson. said,“We had hoped, he would be the 0 one.
But it just didi’ it happet." : : we

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-pacter ‘behind the Save-On Foods’ store June |

|. firefighters. extinguished: burming - debris. Police ©
* gay the fire’'was.accidental-and ‘was.a ‘mishap -

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