Source: Los Angeles Times
An 11-year-old in Manhattan Beach was rescued after being buried for five minutes under the sand the broken sand tunnel he was building.
The boy, visiting the beach at 8th Street with family members Sunday afternoon, was on his hands and knees about six feet down in a hole he was digging diagonally toward another hole his cousin was digging, said Battalion Chief Dave Shenbaum of the Manhattan Beach Fire Department.
The boy was trying to connect the two holes into a tunnel when he was buried by an avalanche of sand.
“He had about six feet of sand above him coming down on him,” Shenbaum said.
When the boy’s cousin looked up and didn’t see him, she asked a man playing on the beach with his son for help. The man, realizing that the boy was probably buried, called others to help him.
“About 20 other beach-goers started to dig frantically,” Shenbaum said.
Lifeguards joined the efforts, officials said, and the boy was pulled free after five minutes, unconscious and unresponsive. Rescuers performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and “in a very short period of time, he started to breathe on his own,” Shenbaum said.
“He was seconds away from death,” said Shenbaum, who arrived with paramedics. “The great part of this story is that you had beach patrons and bystanders working together with county lifeguards … to dig this kid out and save his life.”
Often patrons, not patrol will save the lives of near-drowning vicitims because they are usually first to spot them due to crowds. The implications, say officials, are that, whether you’re a professional DWI lawyer California or a banker, everyone should know basic CPR.
The time factor was so crucial that if beach-goers had simply called paramedics and waited without doing anything, “he would have been dead,” Shenbaum said.
The boy was taken to Harbor- UCLA Medical Center, where he was alert and answering questions, officials said.
“The county beaches have an ordinance where it’s illegal to dig these types of holes to prevent just these types of accidents,” Shenbaum said. “They do a very good job of preventing them, which is why you don’t hear about many of them.”
While most beach-goers build sandcastles and small holes, those digging several feet down are generally cautioned by lifeguards to stop. The same goes for people burying themselves feet-first in the sand.
“The problem with the sand is it’s so dense,” Shenbaum said. “You remove one bucket of sand and two buckets fall into its place.”
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My Take: This story scares the bejezua outta me! I have an 11-year old boy who absolutely loves to bury himself on the beach and I worry about this kind of thing happening to him all the time. He’s not much of a swimmer, yet, and doesn’t seem to want to surf. He’s more into basketball and other team sports where you wear sports pads and the logos on the wall padding say Subway and Yum Yum Donuts.
I wonder if this happened on a fancy beach where the Hollywood elite live if anyone would have noticed I can imagine them walking around in their Laguna beach jeans all into their own stuff to notice someone in trouble on the sand. That city is famous for wannabees who walk around in their Mek denim and soak up the whistles from the guys on the dolly truck and workbenches.
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