Jun 24, 2009 10:56 pm US/Central
Boy, 6, Critical After Pulled From Metro Lake
NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. (WCCO) ―
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Police were called to Long Lake in New Brighton around 2:30 p.m. and within minutes lifeguards found the 6-year-old boy and pulled him to shore.
CBS
A 6-year-old boy is in critical condition after nearly drowning on a field trip with a school-aged care program. It happened around 2:30 Wednesday afternoon at Long Lake in New Brighton.
"It makes you nervous," said Colleen Grundtner, who wasn't at the lake, but her 8-year-old son was swimming with the boy. They were in a Roseville Area Schools summer program called Friendship Connection.
The director of Friendship Connection told Grundtner's husband the children were playing on a platform on the lake.
"They were playing and one just didn't come up from the water. From what I heard is that the lifeguard saw it right away, instantly, and went over and made sure that the kids in the raft stayed in one spot. They had other lifeguards and people there scouring the water and found the boy fairly quickly," she said.
Paramedics administered CPR on the boy who was unresponsive after he was pulled from the water. He is currently hospitalized at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul.
A spokesman for Ramsey County Parks and Recreation said there were five lifeguards and one supervisor at Long Lake on Wednesday afternoon. He said that's the normal amount of lifeguards at that lake year after year.
Those lifeguards, all of them over 18 years old, met with a chaplain after the accident. The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office will investigate the incident.
Grundtner thinks lots of parents will be talking to their children about careful in the lake.
"It scares everybody, it's a very sad accident that happened," she said.
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