Tag result for article published on Thu November 01 2012 5:06 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: drowning, evacuation, hurricane surge, surge water
Police on Thursday said two brothers, ages 2 and 4, who were swept away Monday night when waves of water crashed into an SUV driven by their mother in Staten Island were found dead. A mother headed out of New York on Monday with her two son’s, Brandon Moore and Connor Moore, hoping to reach [...]
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Posted in Disaster Report, Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Wed May 16 2012 9:16 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Bolingbrook Fire Department, drowning, drowning Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook firefighter/paramedics responded about 5:35 p.m. Tuesday to a report that a 10- or 11-year-old girl ‘went under’ the water surface of a pond behind Pioneer School, 1470 Raven Drive. A special request for MABAS Division 16 divers was called to the scene for a water rescue. An 11-year-old female was found underwater after a [...]
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Posted in Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook, Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Mon April 16 2012 8:37 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Advanced Life Support, Cook County Sheriff, drowning, North Maine Fire Department, swan, swan attack, unincorporated Des Plaines, water recovery
North Maine Fire Department responded about 6:59 a.m. Saturday to a report of a drowning victim at 9386 Bay Colony Drive. Emergency responders received a report that a man and a dog were in a boat when the dog jumped into the water, and a man jumped into the pond after the dog. A citizen [...]
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Posted in FIREBLOG B, Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Sun April 15 2012 9:16 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Advanced Life Support, Cook County Sheriff, drowning, North Maine Fire Department, unincorporated Des Plaines, water recovery
North Maine Fire Department responded about 6:59 a.m. Saturday to a report of a drowning victim at 9386 Bay Colony Drive. Emergency responders received a report that a man and a dog were in a boat when the dog jumped into the water, and a man jumped into the pond after the dog. A citizen [...]
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Posted in Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook, Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Sat April 14 2012 9:01 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Advanced Life Support, Cook County Sheriff, drowning, North Maine Fire Department, unincorporated Des Plaines, water recovery
North Maine Fire Department responded about 6:59 a.m. Saturday to a report of a drowning victim at 9386 Bay Colony Drive. Emergency responders received a report that a man and a dog were in a boat when the dog jumped into the water, and a man jumped into the pond after the dog. A citizen [...]
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Posted in FIREBLOG C, Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Thu September 22 2011 3:07 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Diver's Box, drowning, Elk Grove Village Fire Departmnent, Itasca, MABAS, water rescue
Itasca and Elk Grove Village police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 9:30 a.m. Thursday to a report of a vehicle submerged in a pond with a victim inside the car near Devon and Park Boulevard. Neighbors reported they learned that a woman, possibly in her 80′s, Mirdza Robezniek, backed out of her driveway in the 200 [...]
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Posted in FIREBLOG C
Tag result for article published on Mon August 08 2011 1:51 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: death investigation, drowning, Fox Lake Fire Protection District, Fox Lake Police Department, Lake County Sheriff
A man found dead by three fishermen in a weed bed in Duck Lake about 3:00 p.m. Sunday was reported missing and endangered 24 hours earlier. The missing man, subject of a report filed by the Fox Lake Police Department has been identified as Vladimir Taraday, 65. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday afternoon. Preliminary [...]
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Posted in CRIME BLOG
Tag result for article published on Thu July 21 2011 10:45 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Buffalo Grove, Decatur, drowning, Michigan, Paw Paw, Water Safety
Michigan State police from the nearby Paw Paw post were called to the Greenwoods Camp for Boys in Decatur, Michigan just after 10 p.m. Wednesday for missing camper, Jacob Waxberg, 15, who counselors feared may have drowned. Jacob Waxberg was unconscious and unresponsive when taken by ambulance to Bronson Lakeview Hospital in Paw Paw, where [...]
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Posted in Peeps, Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Sat March 26 2011 7:36 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: accidental death, death investigation, drowning
A woman who died after her car rolled into a pond on the north side of the campus of Harper College has been identified as Victoria Auer, 64, of Rolling Meadows, and her death has been ruled a drowning. Cardiovascular disease has been indicated as a contributing factor to the death, which is being classified [...]
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Posted in Water Safety
Tag result for article published on Mon October 04 2010 5:06 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Bradley, drowning, Illinois, Kankakee County, Kankakee County Sheriff, open-water diving, quarry death, scuba diving death, scuba diving incident
View Chicago Area, Water Safety, Drownings, Searches, and Rescues in a larger map Satellite view of Haigh Quarry. Kankakee County Sheriff responded and Bradley Fire Department responded about 1:15 p.m. Saturday to a report of a missing diver at Haigh Quarry. Kenneth G. Uhl, 16, a junior at Buffalo Grove High School, died Saturday after [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon July 12 2010 9:14 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: apparent drowning, Buffalo Grove Fire Department, drowning, juvenile victim
VIDEO: Buffalo Grove police and Arlington Heights police assure that a Buffalo Grove Fire Department rescue ambulance arrives at Northwest Community Hospital as quickly and safely as possible while transporting apparent drowning victim, Brandon Zhu. Buffalo Grove police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 7:40 p.m. Thursday, July 1, 2010 to a report of an 11-month-old boy [...]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG, FIREBLOG B
Tag result for article published on Sun June 13 2010 6:03 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: campsite, drowning, flash flood
The search for nearly two dozen people who disappeared after flash floods swept through a popular campground went from desperate to grim on Saturday, after teams that scoured miles of river and rugged wilderness found just two bodies. At least 17 people were killed Friday after flash floods swept through their Arkansas campsites following a [...]
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