On Sunday, a 45-year-old woman drowned off Amagansett. The East Hampton Press reports there were "several distressed swimmers at an unprotected beach in Amagansett, between Atlantic Avenue and Napeague Lane, and upon arrival found a civilian assisting several swimmers out of the 'heavy surf and dangerous riptides.'" Leslie Wanek Sgaglione was unconscious and, after administering CPR and other lifesaving measures, she was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital. Another beachgoer said he saw Sgaglione in the water while she was apparently trying to save distressed swimmers, but then she struggled against a riptide. Her children were reportedly also on the beach.
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