{"id":12202,"date":"2012-05-04T19:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T02:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=12202"},"modified":"2012-05-08T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:29:54","slug":"breaking-news-child-drowns-in-chehalis-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=12202","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Child drowns in Chehalis River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ambulances line Ceres Hill Road as responders work to rescue a child in the river<\/p><\/div>\n

Updated at 8:45 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter
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\nCHEHALIS – An eight-year-old boy missing from his home along the Chehalis River this afternoon drowned.<\/p>\n

The child’s mother reported him missing just after 4:30 p.m. from the 100 block of Ceres Hill Road, just west of Adna, according to Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.<\/p>\n

Deputies trained in swift water rescue found the boy about a quarter mile down stream about an hour later, Brown said.<\/p>\n

A deputy saw him on a gravel bar in the middle of the river and swam across to begin CPR, Brown said.<\/p>\n

Responders continued CPR as the child was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, but he was pronounced dead about 7:05 p.m., according to Brown.<\/p>\n

Members of Lewis County Fire Districts 13 and 6, as well as AMR assisted in the rescue.<\/p>\n

They believe he fell in the river, according to Brown. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n

Neighbors Bruce and Starla Terry said the boy lived with his mother and sister.<\/p>\n

He didn’t talk much, Bruce Terry said.<\/p>\n

“That little boy, he would devil you with his smiles though, tease you,” Bruce Terry said.<\/p>\n

The homes sit within feet of the high bank of the river, a dangerously unstable bank, according to the Terrys.<\/p>\n

His mother had a fence around the back door, but Bruce Terry speculated somehow the child went close to river, just to look and ended up in the water.<\/p>\n

“You might think that grass out there has dirt under it,” Starla Terry said as she pointed to edge of her back lawn. “But it might not.”<\/p>\n

The spot, at the north end of the Boistfort Valley, is just a a few miles east of where a 24-year-old Olympia man drowned last month. Daniel Kuhn took part in the Pe Ell River run and his body was found four days later.<\/p>\n

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The banks of the Chehalis River are eroded behind Bruce and Starla Terry's house, next door to the child's family home.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated at 8:45 p.m. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS – An eight-year-old boy missing from his home along the Chehalis River this afternoon drowned. The child’s mother reported him missing just after 4:30 p.m. from the 100 block of Ceres Hill Road, just west of Adna, according to Lewis County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-12202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12202"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12205,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12202\/revisions\/12205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}