Teen pulled from NW Miami-Dade canal
MIAMI - Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel worked hard to revive a teen who was pulled unconscious from a canal in Northwest Miami-Dade on Tuesday afternoon.
It happened minutes before 4 p.m., as Miami-Dade Fire Rescue divers jumped into the canal in the area of 181 Avenue and NW 85 Street and pulled out the teenager, following reports of a missing child.
Chopper 4 images showed divers lifting the teen's limp body out of the water and then handing him to rescue personnel, who put him on a gurney and immediately began working frantically on reviving him.
The teen was then loaded onto a rescue unit and taken to a Jackson Memorial Hospital where his condition is not known.
The teen's aunt and a neighbor told CBS News Miami that kids dared the boy to jump into the water after getting out of school.
A witness said the boy came up and said, "Please help me, please help me." But that he went right back down. He said the teen had been in the water for about 25 minutes before he was pulled out of the water.
"So, we don't know if he had life or not. But we just prayed that he make it because he was our close neighbor, close friend."
Another neighbor said the boy's mom lost her other son about three years ago.
Sources at the scene tell CBS News Miami the teen had a pulse as he was loaded into the ambulance.
