Girl trapped in sand dies after a hole collapsed on her and trapped her at a beach in the Oregon coastal town of Lincoln City, CBS Portland affiliate KOIN-TV reports. According to Lt. Jerry Palmer from the Lincoln City Police, before the girl trapped in sand dies, authorities frantically tried to save the girl but to no avail.
Palmer said Lincoln City police and North Lincoln Fire and Rescue crews responded to a 911 call around 5:15 p.m. on Friday about the collapse and girl.
The Associated Press reports that as authorities reached the scene where girl trapped in sand dies, they found a large group of people anxiously trying to dig the girl out. Officers were later able to assist in extracting the girl from the large sand hole, said Palmer.
On Saturday, the 9-year-old was identified as Isabel Grace Franks.
Palmer said, "The child came out of the hole unconscious and not breathing."
After Isabel was pulled free, they found her unconscious and not breathing. Police began CPR immediately and later on, the North Lincoln Fire and Rescue and ambulance medical teams took over.
Isabel was taken by ambulance to Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital. According to The Examiner, they continued the lifesaving tactics in the ambulance while on the way to the hospital but to no avail. Isabel was unable to be revived and she was pronounced dead.
CBS News reports authorities saying that before the girl trapped in sand dies, the girl was with her family visiting the Oregon coast city. Her family was at the scene when the collapse occurred.
Isabel and her family were reportedly from Sandy, 28 miles southeast of Portland.
Apparently, before the girl trapped in sand dies, the girl helped dig the hole while she was with her siblings and other friends at the beach behind the Seagull Beach Front Motel, witnesses told KATU-TV.
The girl sat down in the hole to see how deep it was and that was when the sand caved, reports ABC 13.
On Sunday Aug. 30, "Fox and Friends Weekend" live reported that it was unclear whether the hole was present at the time the family got to the beach or if appeared only after being dug.
Witness Tracey Dudley said, "At first we thought, you know, it was just kids, but it was like screaming and screaming and screaming."
According to ABC 13, Dudley called 911 as he saw how people desperately tried to dig the child out.
Dudley said, "Well, the people were digging and digging and digging, and it looked like the sand kept collapsing."
Dudley added, "It was heart wrenching. You could see that people were trying and, I don't even know what to say. It was awful."
Mourners have placed flowers and candles at the hole where the girl trapped in sand dies. It has now been filled with sand again.
Jim Kusz, the North Lincoln Fire spokesman said the incident where the girl trapped in sand dies has happened before, though rare.
According to ABC News, back in June, several children were also buried alive while playing in the beach sand at the beginning of the summer. A 12-year-old was also killed while digging into a sand dune when it collapsed around him at a beach in Marin County, Calif.
In Long Beach, N.J., a 16-year-old boy got died getting buried by sand. A 17-year-old boy was also injured when sand caved in on him in a sand pit in Indiana.
Girl trapped in sand dies and problems such as these lie in the fact that sand quickly suffocates a person is buried underneath a cave in, said Chris Brewster of the San Diego Life Guard Service. He told ABC News that the sand gets into the person's airways causing them to suffocate.
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