Lake Michigan seek for lacking teen close to Illinois Seashore State Park restoration effort after boy knocked into water: witness

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There’s a restoration effort ongoing in Lake Michigan within the north suburbs, after a 14-year-old boy was knocked into the water by a wave, witnesses and fireplace officers mentioned.

Witnesses mentioned the boy was having fun with a day along with his father at Illinois Seashore State Park, close to a break wall, when a wave knocked him into the lake earlier than taking him beneath.

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The Coast Guard mentioned the unique name got here in simply after 4 p.m.

After 4 hours of scouring the water, at the very least 15 emergency companies from Illinois and Wisconsin got here again to land, and deemed the Seashore Park search a restoration effort.

The boy’s father watched from the shore, as rescue crews and drones labored to seek out the teenager.

The household’s go to from Wisconsin, is ending, officers say, seemingly as the primary lake drowning for Seashore Park, this summer time.

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Paula Myrie mentioned she prayed with the dad when she confirmed up as a easy stranger, hoping to lend hope.

“And so, I prayed for him as a result of I wished to encourage him as a result of what he was saying to me was, ‘I simply took my eyes off him for simply – I simply need him to come back again,'” Waukegan resident Myrie mentioned. “Are you able to think about how that household feels? The water shouldn’t be attractive anymore. Cooling off and having time on the seashore, a picnic has no attraction to me anymore. Someone misplaced their life. Someone’s baby will not go residence. A household is torn.”

Maria Bandera mentioned, in Spanish, that she was swimming alongside the boy’s father on the time, whereas his son was close to a break wall.

“{The teenager} walked in direction of the rocks, and a wave hit him. And he fell on the rocks, and his father noticed every thing. And another person referred to as 911,” Bandera mentioned.

Hearth officers say crews will probably be again on the lake someday Wednesday morning to proceed the search.