Child in life-threatening condition after reported drowning at Mahogany Beach - BERITAJA

A kid is successful infirmary successful life-threatening information aft a reported drowning astatine Mahogany Beach connected Sunday evening.

According to EMS-Alberta paramedics reports came successful about a “youth that had gone missing successful the water” astatine the Mahogany Beach main area about 7:20 p.m.

Battalion Chief Scott Cowan pinch Calgary Fire Department says they responded to the telephone arsenic well.

“Our crews arrived, talked to witnesses and recovered the past segment constituent of wherever the personification had gone nether the water. Our aquatics squad entered the water, dove down. It’s rather deep,” says Cowan.

Cowan says Mahogany Lake is about 23 feet heavy and that “visibility is very constricted there.”

“They utilized instrumentality to get down to the bottommost of the lake, recovered the child, brought them up and transferred attraction to EMS,” says Cowan who says the kid was astatine the bottommost of the lake.

EMS-Alberta paramedics tells BERITAJA that “once the CFD h2o rescue squad recovered the patient,” they transported the kid to the South Health Campus successful captious life-threatening condition.

Signs extracurricular the formation opportunity that location are nary lifeguards connected work astatine Mahogany Beach and to usage it astatine your ain risk.

In a societal media post, the Mahogany Homeowners Association says “due to an incident this Sunday evening, our main formation will beryllium closed until Tuesday, May 5 astatine 9:00 a.m.”

Last August, two men successful their 20s died aft drowning successful Mahogany Lake. A petition was started days later successful hopes of mandating the beingness of lifeguards and trained first assistance responders astatine each recreational h2o sites.