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By Matt | July 28, 2007, 3:48pm
Topics: Lessons of Life |
I was at the beach today, and was witness to an event. A little girl (maybe 8 to 10 yo) got caught in a rip tide, and apparently her parents noticed this. I didn’t hear her scream or anything, and it wasn’t until the 3 people who ran in after her were halfway to her before I realized what was going on. One of the 3 was a man who made it to her first. By the time he got to her, he was exhausted and wasn’t able to bring her in. The other two who went in managed to bring the the whole group in. The little girl was fine.
The man was not. He was worn out and had a hard time breathing. He laid there on the beach for a while breathing heavily, and you could tell he was exhausted. After a while he go up and moved to the umbrella that the family was sitting under… but he was still having trouble. So first the lifeguard came and tried to give him oxygen, but there must have been some trouble with the equipment cause he put it away after fumbling with it for a while. Then came the park rangers, who also had oxygen which they gave to him. Finally came NASA EMS/Fire Rescue and some other emergency personnel. With all those people I couldn’t see what was going on, but eventually he walked off with them.
And he saved the little girl.