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13-year-old twins drowned in Miami-Dade, one set out to rescue his brother who had fallen into the lake in Arthur Woodward Park.
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Twins drown in Florida lake
Two twin brothers died drowned Friday followingnoon following being pulled from a lake in northwest Miami-Dade. This happened last Friday, April 7, 2023 at Arthur Woodward Park Lake.
“It is a very, very sad event, in which there is a group of children playing in a park and this happens”said Detective Luis Sierra.
According to the preliminary investigation, a group of minors was in a local park, located at 1220 NW 99th Streetand playing near the lake.
The twins lived in nearby Colonial Acres Mobile Home Park, east of the lake, near the Twin Lakes area.
One of the brothers fell into the lake and the other jumped in to help him, but neither knew how to swim, although witnesses said another teenager had pushed him into the lake.
But police at a news conference said the 13-year-old boy fell, also saying it’s unclear if the brush contributed to the deaths of the two boys.
firefighters from Miami-Dade They went to the park on Northwest 99th Street around 3:00 p.m. following receiving a call that two people were drowning in the water.
Firefighters said three divers were searching the lake for the victims. The two teens were eventually pulled from the water and given CPR by paramedics before being transferred to a local hospital.
Unfortunately, one died in the hospital and the other was in critical condition for a long time, in the end the 2 twins died in the hospital.
Drowning deaths in Florida
According to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.in 2022 Florida ranked sixth in the US per capita in unintentional drowning deaths among children ages 0-17.
In 2022, Quote Wizard conducted a study in which the highest number of drowning deaths between 2018 and 2020 occurred in Florida, since more than two thousand people drowned in swimming pools during those years.
He Florida Department of Children and Families reported 93 drownings in 2022. There have already been 22 drownings in the state of Florida this year.
States with more drowning deaths in swimming pools in 2022:
- Arizona (23)
- Texas (20)
- California (9)
- Kentucky (8)
The National Drowning Prevention Alliance recommends that:
- Keep an eye on children at all times
- Put up a fence to prevent accidents or falls
- Know the CPR technique
- The most important thing is to teach children to swim
Cover photo credits to WPLG, taken from a YouTube video
