More than 50 children have died from drowning in Florida so far this year. Six died in the first two weeks of June. Drowning is the main cause of preventable death of children four and under in Florida, which leads the nation in child drowning deaths.
“That’s at or near the top of the worst for me, especially since becoming a father myself,’’ says Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Public Information Section Chief Rob Herrin, who has been on several such calls over his career.
While rescuers are trying to resuscitate the child, their training takes over and lets them do their job. But later, perhaps as soon as they get back to the truck, the enormity of what just happened hits them, Herrin says…