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Boy Dies After 2 Children Found Unresponsive In PA Pool: Police (UPDATE) Boy Dies After 2 Children Found Unresponsive In PA Pool: Police (UPDATE)
Boy Dies After 2 Children Found Unresponsive In PA Pool: Police (Update) An 8-year-old boy has died two months after two children were found unresponsive in a community pool, the Susquehanna Township Police announced on Monday, Oct. 21.  The children were found in the pool at the Whisper Woods apartment complex in the 360 block of Brookridge Terrace in Susquehanna Township around 5:30 p.m. on July 31, the police restated in the updated release.  EMS were called to the scene providing life-saving aid to the children until they were taken to the hospital. The boy later passed away, but a teenage girl survived, the police wrote in the updated release.&nb…

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Clearer Water May Have Prevented The Drowning Of Boy At Hotel In Harrisburg, County DA Says Clearer Water May Have Prevented The Drowning Of Boy At Hotel In Harrisburg, County DA Says
Clearer Water May Have Prevented The Drowning Of Boy At Hotel In Harrisburg, County DA Says A 7-year-old boy's drowning last month at a central Pennsylvania hotel might have been preventable, according to information from the Dauphin County District Attorney Attorney Frank Chardo. Crews were called to the Red Lion Hotel at 4751 Lindle Road for a reported drowning on June 23 shortly before 10 p.m., as Daily Voice reported at the time. Two factors may have contributed to the drowned according to District Attorney Fran Chardo: An over-crowded pool-- there were over a dozen people in the pool at the time of the drowning. Cloudy water-- someone vomited in the pool earlier that day so…

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by Jillian Pikora