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Miraculous rescue saves little boy’s life |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
LETHBRIDGE HERALD
A four-year-old Utah boy is recovering in Calgary hospital after he was pulled unconscious from Waterton Lake at the Canada-U.S. border on Canada Day.
The boy was reported to be in stable condition Thursday, a day after he was airlifted to Alberta Children’s Hospital from the hospital in Pincher Creek.
He was crossing a bridge at Boundary Creek Wednesday afternoon when he fell off and was swept into Boundary Bay, on the Montana side of the border at the south end of Upper Waterton Lake in Glacier National Park. His father jumped into the fast-flowing creek to try and rescue him and was also swept down to the lake, according to Waterton RCMP.
When nearby boaters found the pair minutes later and pulled them to safety, the youngster had been submerged about a metre below the lake surface and was not breathing. Rescuers attempted to revive the boy while transporting him to the marina at Waterton townsite, about six kilometres north of the border.
Once on shore, an off-duty paramedic and an emergency nurse took over providing first aid with the help of Canadian safety staff with Waterton Lakes National Park. Fortunately for the boy, an ambulance crew from Cardston was nearby after attending a car crash. He was transported by ground to the Pincher Creek Health Centre
The boy and his father, who live in Provost, Utah, were visiting relatives who live in Lethbridge.
The remote outpost of Goat Haunt, located at the south end of the lake in Montana, has no emergency medical services.
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