Four-Year-Old Drowns In Lake Powell

A four-year-old boy has lost his life in a drowning incident on Lake Powell. On the evening of Monday, August 3rd, park dispatch received a 911 call from a houseboat in Warm Creek Bay on Lake Powell. The caller said that a four-year-old boy with the group had just been retrieved from shallow water and was unresponsive. A nurse on the houseboat immediately started CPR. Park rangers and a helicopter from Classic Lifeguard were on scene within 18 minutes of the 911 call and continued lifesaving efforts. The child was transported by helicopter to Page Hospital, but efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. The child had been playing on the beach with other children from the houseboat. He was not wearing a life jacket, and had been left unattended for only a few minutes. It is unclear how he ended up in the water.