BC EHS dispatched over the weekend to near-drowning at Harrison Hot Springs

HARRISON HOT SPRINGS — BC Emergency Health Services personnel were dispatched over the weekend to a report of a child who nearly drowned in the Harrison lagoon in Harrison Hot Springs.

According to scanner traffic, paramedics were called to the lagoon in front of Esplanade Avenue for the report of a possible drowning.

BC EHS arrived on scene at about 4:03 p.m. Saturday (July 29). Emergency personnel were able to revive the 10-year-old child, who was awake shortly thereafter and had regained consciousness and was alert. The patient was subsequently left in care of BC EHS paramedics, according to scanner traffic, and transported to hospital.

In the past two months there have been several drowning-related incidents in the Fraser Valley. Back in early June, a young boy nearly drowned at Cultus Lake before being transported via air ambulance to BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. A man drowned in the Chehalis River north of Harrison Mills over the Canada Day long weekend, while a 22-year-old Surrey man never resurfaced while swimming at Cultus Lake on July 19. Another man died on Friday, July 21 in the Vedder River near Peach Park.