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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