Gothamist: Firefighter Mourned After Off-Duty Drowning in Lake Tahoe

NannyState

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:56:01 -0500

A hero to the end. R.I.P.

stackmaster

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:46:07 -0500

Well, JenChungsBra, since you're so full of ideas, why don't you go invent a time machine & tell them that yourself?

JenChungsBra

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:59:05 -0500

The Daily News story said that the father dove off a boat to save the kid. So one obvious question: couldn't someone have steered the boat over to where the kid, father and uncle were in the process of drowning and picked them all up??

Jen Chung

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:48:17 -0500

Point taken, but the article says the his brother-in-law jumped in, and by the time a lifeguard got to them, the boy was unconscious and uncle was barely conscious.

Rocknrope

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:37:44 -0500

It mentions it in the article, but it would be nice in this post to say that he actualy saved his son. "Trying to save" makes it sound like he failed, when in fact, he reached his son and held him above water before he himself died.

mihow

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:35:35 -0500

Oh my goodness, this is unbelievably sad. That poor boy is never going to be the same again. Oh, so sad. :[