Accident Database

Report ID#69816

2020-05-02
accident date
Unidentified Boy
victim
n/a
victim age
Yellow Breeches (2. Old Gettysburg Pike to Lisburn
river
2. Old Gettysburg Pike to Lisburn (PA 114 bridge)
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
High
water level
I
river difficulty
Pinned in Boat against Rock or Sieve
cause code(s)
Near Drowning
injury type(s)
High Water, Inexperience, One Boat Trip
factors
Private
trip type
Other
boat type
status?
status

Description

Christina Brandon Wise via Facebook May 2 at 11:17 PMToday was an adventure . Went out for a nice day of fishing . Meet up with my brother Kerry and his buddy Steve. Took my brother over to our spot to fish. Steve said I just seen a canoe flip over . Didn’t think anything of it . So I said I’ll walk down check it out . Next thing you know I screamed so loud everyone came running. This family had 2 little boys one which was on the canoe. . And another who was stuck under the canoe from current what happened was apparently a tree fell down and the tree stump was sticking out. So when canoe flipped. It split in and wrapped under tree and boys leg was in between . The dad got caught by current and went down creek. So Brandon jumped in and did everything he can to swim over to the canoe which he made it. We then all threw out a rope to Brandon. He tied himself off. And we all held on for life. Cause the father of the boys used our rope to get back out to his son. He and Brandon then ended up getting the boy up far enough he was unconscious and Brandon held his head up while his amazing dad performed CPR.  I’m so proud of my boys . Yall did freaking amazing. I got blisters from the rope and I’m exhausted from running here to there to help out to . Ugh. I talked to mama lil man is stable. So happy!!!!! outcome coulda been worse. 2 HOURS WOULDN’T CHANGE IT FOR WORLD . One best days of my life . Helping someone we didnt know . And for kids to be involved. We just think we hope someone would do the same for us. I couldn’t imagine what there all feeling . . Let’s make this world wide. So everyone knows anything can happen any second. It’s either do or die . . We risked our lives but it didn,t matter. What mattered was making sure we took action asap to save them to. Hubby has a lot of bruises and scratches all over. But he’s fine