The Nation - News from March 27, 1989
Doctors said the prognosis was good for a 7-year-old boy who fell through ice and was submerged in 40-degree water for nearly 20 minutes on Presque Isle Bay near Erie, Pa. Dwayne Peterson, in intensive care at St. Vincent Health Center, was fishing with his father when he fell through ice into the bay. He had no heartbeat when he was eventually pulled from the bay by John Wronek of the Erie County Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue SCUBA Team.
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