QUAKERTOWN, Pa. — A gentleman drowned just after rescuing two young children who acquired into hassle while swimming at an jap Pennsylvania condition park, authorities reported.
The Bucks County coroner’s business said Marvin Alexan Fernandez Chicas, 37, “disappeared in the water” immediately after rescuing the youngsters who had been swimming at Nockamixon Point out Park on Thursday night.
The coroner’s office claimed Friday that the bring about of his demise experienced been confirmed as drowning pursuing an autopsy and the manner of death appeared to be accidental. Coroner Meredith Buck claimed in a assertion that the office environment is extending “its deepest condolences” to his relatives.
Wesley Robinson, spokesperson for the Office of Conservation and Natural Sources, stated the two small children had been noticed having difficulties in the Tohickon Creek in the cliffs spot at about 5 p.m. Thursday. Chicas went in and acquired the young children to shore, then began to battle, Robinson said. His system was observed by divers in the lake extra than two hrs afterwards.
Swimming is prohibited in the creek and in the 1,450-acre Lake Nockamixon, the greatest in the county, Robinson explained.
Hearth Chief Harry Grim of Haycock Township, who reported about 10 divers were associated in the research, explained to WFMZ-Television set that many components of the lake are deceptive and perilous.
“Unfortunately, folks really don’t abide by the policies, and the sad actuality is it’s not a easy, gradual slope beneath the drinking water, and they action off into a deep spot, they just take a gulp of h2o, and they die however. It should not come about, but it does,” Grim claimed.
