Thread: Man Rescued From Dormont Pool Dies

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06228/713932-100.stm

Man rescued from Dormont Pool dies
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A Mexican immigrant who was rescued from drowning last month in Dormont died this morning in Mercy Hospital.

An autopsy is scheduled today for Noe Lopez-Vilchis, 32.

Mr. Lopez-Vilchis and three Mexican companions had been swimming on the afternoon of July 20 at the Dormont Pool when a teenage lifeguard saw him motionless under the water.

Lifeguards pulled him out and revived him enough that he was alive when he was taken to Mercy Hospital.

He and his companions had been in the United States illegally, Allegheny County police said. The men shared a small apartment in Scott.

The other three were taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, formerly Immigration and Naturalization.

Mr. Lopez-Vilchis was pronounced dead at 7:30 a.m. in Mercy Hospital, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office reported

I guess the warning labels at the bottom of the pool wasn't written in Spanish.

Guess its time to put the following on the bottom of municipal pools in very small print.

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If you can read this, YOU'RE DROWNING!

¡Si usted puede leer esto, USTED SE ESTÁ AHOGANDO!
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