A 26-year-old man is dead after a drowning incident at Rice Lake. According to reports, emergency crews responded to the incident around 3:30 pm on Saturday, June 3.
Two firefighters jumped into the lake and brought the man ashore, but efforts to save him were not successful. He had been submerged in the water for one or two minutes when the rescuers reached him.
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“When our members saw they were still in the water in a shallow area working, doing CPR basically in the water, two of our members jumped in the water, swam out, got the patient, swam him to shore, and started the full operation of trying for resuscitation,” Capt. Kit Little of the North Vancouver District Fire and Rescue was quoted as saying in Global News.
No foul play is suspected.
Please everyone take this as precaution. Yes we have cold refreshing waters to revive ourselves in but as you can see that’s not always the case. Being in these soaring temperatures raises your body temperatures the gasses in our bodies! Adapt to the temperature of the water by introducing your body to it.