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Update-6-Year-Old Responsive After Falling in Sinkhole and Being Covered w 11' of Sand for 3.5 Hours [View all]
Last edited Sat Jul 13, 2013, 09:40 PM - Edit history (1)
A 6-year-old boy is still alive after being buried under 11 feet of sand for about 3.5 hours Saturday evening at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, officials said.
The incident occurred about 4:30 p.m. Saturday on the northern slopes of Mt. Baldy, a well-known and highly popular landmark at the eastern edge of the park, according to Bruce Rowe, a park ranger and public information officer at the park. Rowe said that the 6-year-old child's family said that he had become trapped in "what they described as sinkhole" and that when they tried to get him out, the hole collapsed on him.
Family members called 911 and the park service, and within 15 minutes, park rangers and Michigan City police were on the scene, Rowe said. They immediately began digging where the family last saw the child, and heavy equipment from NIPSCO, the local power provider, and from two excavating companies, D & M Excavating and Woodruff & Sons, was brought to the scene to help.
Rowe said that the child was found just after 8 p.m., was taken out of the sand to an off-road vehicle which took the boy to an ambulance waiting on a nearby beach. He was then transported to Franciscan St. Anthony Health in Michigan City and later was transported to an unidentified Chicago hospital.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-indiana-dunes-boy-trapped-sand,0,3930348.story
The incident occurred about 4:30 p.m. Saturday on the northern slopes of Mt. Baldy, a well-known and highly popular landmark at the eastern edge of the park, according to Bruce Rowe, a park ranger and public information officer at the park. Rowe said that the 6-year-old child's family said that he had become trapped in "what they described as sinkhole" and that when they tried to get him out, the hole collapsed on him.
Family members called 911 and the park service, and within 15 minutes, park rangers and Michigan City police were on the scene, Rowe said. They immediately began digging where the family last saw the child, and heavy equipment from NIPSCO, the local power provider, and from two excavating companies, D & M Excavating and Woodruff & Sons, was brought to the scene to help.
Rowe said that the child was found just after 8 p.m., was taken out of the sand to an off-road vehicle which took the boy to an ambulance waiting on a nearby beach. He was then transported to Franciscan St. Anthony Health in Michigan City and later was transported to an unidentified Chicago hospital.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-indiana-dunes-boy-trapped-sand,0,3930348.story
After ariving at a Chicago hospital, he was placed on a ventilator and able to respond to simple commands.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Hospital-Boy-pulled-from-Ind-dune-was-responsive-4663420.php