Man dies after being pulled out of pond at RV campground

11.03.59

By Samantha Ptashkin

GARDEN PRAIRIE (WREX)- A ebullient day of swimming at an RV campground turns livid, after rescue crews find a man from the Chicago suburbs submerged in a small pond. It happened immediate Belvidere, at the Paradise Park campground on Place Street in Garden Prairie.

About  half a dozen parade fire departments responded to a possible drowning call at the park. When they got there, campers told them they had seen a man slip away below the surface of a small swimming pond. "There were the ambulances all pulling up, and people were starting to deepen," said Sarah Myers, who lives across the high road from Paradise Park.

Dozens watched as fire connection after fire truck pulled into the Paradise Garden campground. "We were amazed by the amount of boats and saving squads that responded," Myers said.

Those crews spout about a half hour on the water, using hooks and draglines to come across the victim. When they found him, he was unconcious. "It appears at this outdated he was swimming, and it appears he became exhausted and justified went under," said Sgt. Darren Rowe of the Boone County Sheriff's Hang on.

Source: WREX-TV

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