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Toddler Dies After Falling In Gore Creek At Vail
Edgewater Family Was In Town For Lacrosse Tournament
POSTED: 4:55 am MDT June 29,
2009
UPDATED: 7:33 am MDT June 29,
2009
VAIL, Colo. -- A toddler has died after apparently falling into Gore Creek in Vail while walking with his mother. Eagle County Coroner Kara Bettis identified the boy as 2-year-old Colin Cassidy of Edgewater, Colo. Vail officials said Sara Cassidy, the boy's mother, lost track of her son as she was tending to her baby daughter while on a walk on a recreation path alongside the creek near the Wren Condominiums. About 25 minutes after the mother called 911, a construction worker from the Ritz-Carlton pulled the boy out from the water, east of the Cascade Resort, about a mile downstream. Two passersby tried to resuscitate him before paramedics arrived.
The boy was pronounced dead at Vail Valley Medical Center. The family was in Vail for a lacrosse tournament. An autopsy will determine the cause of death.Gore Creek and other local creeks and rivers are running very high and fast after a prolonged and extremely wet spring, RealVail.com reported.
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