VIDEO: Teen Vital After Drowning At Springfield Greenway Dam
UPDATE: A GO-FUND-ME web page has been set as much as help the household with medical payments and different bills. Finally report, Cheyanne was nonetheless in ICU.
UPDATE 1/9/23 – 1:58PM: In response to Robertson County EMS, the teenager (Cheyanne Walters) stays in crucial situation at Centennial Kids’s Hospital on a ventilator. Her household is at her aspect and point out that she has proven some enchancment.
SPRINGFIELD TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn Information) A 17-year-old woman (Cheyanne Walters) is crucial after falling right into a creek close to the Robertson County Fairgrounds Sunday afternoon.
The primary name got here into 911 at 1:41 pm, the caller reporting {that a} woman had drowned on the hydronic dam. The dam/mini waterfall is positioned adjoining to the Robertson County Fairgrounds about 100 ft from the Memorial Blvd bridge that goes over the creek and the Springfield Greenway. The dam is seen from the bridge on Memorial Blvd. The Greenway connects Garner St Park and J. Travis Worth Park. LOCATION OF DAM
Officers inform Smokey Barn Information that two teen ladies (a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old) had been on the dam when the 17-year-old fell within the water whereas she was attempting to achieve a ball floating within the creek. Reportedly, the 17-year-old was sitting on the creek’s edge when she fell in.
In response to Robertson County EMS Director Brent Dyer, the teenager slipped, fell in, and received caught below the waterfall. The 16 yr previous went in to assist her, however after about 2 to three minutes the 17-year-old misplaced consciousness. The 16-year-old held onto her good friend till bystanders strolling a canine got here to her help. The bystanders used the canine’s leash to assist get the 16 yr previous out.
As you’ll be able to see in our video of the scene, the ball reveals simply how robust the undertow is, robust sufficient to tug the ball underwater and maintain it there for a number of seconds.
Extra folks in a automotive noticed what was taking place and helped rescue the woman who was unresponsive at the moment. Inside minutes the Springfield Hearth Division and Robertson County EMS arrived and started superior cardiac life help with CPR, IV drugs, and intubation. Initially, each ladies had been transported to TriStar NorthCrest in Springfield. The 17-year-old was flown to Centennial Kids’s Hospital with improved important indicators, officers mentioned. ER Physicians and the crew at TriStar NorthCrest additional stabilized the teenager for transport to Centennial.
Precisely how lengthy the woman was underwater was unclear however officers are hopeful that chilly water helped induce therapeutic hypothermia which is thought to protect mind tissue in post-cardiac arrest sufferers.
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