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Reports from Fox News indicates that a 65-year-old man drowned while trying to save a 4-year-old girl struggling in rip currents at Florida's Honeymoon Island State Park, officials said Monday.
Three children vacationing from Ohio became caught in rip currents at Pet Beach in the southern portion of the state park in Dunedin on Sunday, Florida Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Jennifer Diaz told FoxNews.com.
The children's parents, who were not identified, responded and were able to rescue two of them, Diaz
said.
Alan B. Hall, 65, then noticed the third child was still in distress and he ran into the water to save the 4-year-old girl. After grabbing the girl and pushing her out of the current, she was able to swim back to shore. But Hall turned face down in the water, Diaz said.
Hall was retrieved by a boater and was administered CPR on the shore, where he was unresponsive and not breathing. He later died upon arrival at Mease Dunedin Hospital, Diaz said.
The incident remains under investigation by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Diaz said Hall was not related to the unidentified Ohio family. A medical examiner will determine a cause of death, she said.
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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection offers our sincere condolences [to Hall's relatives]," Diaz said.
Alan B. Hall, a hero was the son of a Freemason, Donald A. Hall and the member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Hulda Hall. He was of very old American stock and he is related to Lyman Hall the signer of the Declaration of Independence and the original Hall settler in Connecticut, John Hall and Jane Woolen.
ReplyDeletePeople would have said: Children are feeling the presence of "Uncle" Alan Hall by the watchful eyes of "Uncle" Alan Hall from the heavens in Florida.
ReplyDeleteAlan B. Hall is the first cousin of Elihu Yale many times removed, the president of Madras, of India, also the namesake of Yale University!
ReplyDeleteAlan B. Hall is the cousin of Francis Bacon, Kevin Bacon, William Henry Harrison, Winston Churchill, George Washington, Lyman Hall, Thomas Jefferson, and many others!
ReplyDeleteThis is just in, this story is similar to the Alan Hall case, this time Steven Sizemore! Sizemore is a hero of Cherokee ancestry. Both Hall and Sizmeore are distant cousins of each other! That is one crazy world and that is amazing, Lord!
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