Law enforcement officials said Sunday afternoon that rescue efforts for a 6-year-old girl who was swept away in Pennsylvania’s Chester Creek on Saturday night have been abandoned.<\/p>\n
The effort that is ongoing, officials said, is now considered a recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an extremely sad day for the City of Chester,\u201d said Chester Mayor Stefan Roots on Sunday. \u201cThis is a community that will wrap its arms around those are hurting or who are in need.\u201d<\/p>\n
At 8 a.m., on Sunday, crews resumed a search for a girl who fell into the creek at about 7 p.m. on Saturday night. Officials suspended the search after 10 p.m. on Saturday after searching for the girl for several hours.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, officials said that though Fire Department crews suspended the search, the Coast Guard had crews looking for the girl throughout the night.<\/p>\n
But, they noted, the survivability estimates for someone in the water was only about three hours.<\/p>\n
As of 2 p.m., officials said, the effort would continue as a recovery, instead of a rescue.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a tough time for our city,\u201d said Roots.<\/p>\n Police officials have not yet provided the girl\u2019s identity, but, on Sunday morning, Kimberly Richardson, who said she was the girl\u2019s grandmother, told\u00a0NBC Philadelphia that the family was already bracing for the worst.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sad. My emotions are off the hinge,\u201d she said. \u201cI haven\u2019t had sleep. I can\u2019t eat. The only thing I\u2019m thinking about is finding her.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials have told NBC Philadelphia that the incident began after three girls were playing in a park by Chester Creek when two of them slipped on mud and fell into the water. <\/p>\n The area of the creek is where the girl went missing is located near 7th Street and the Avenue of the States in Chester, Delaware County, according to the director of Delaware County\u2019s Department of Emergency Services Tim Boyce.<\/p>\n One of those girls was able to get herself out, but the 6-year-old was not able to get back to shore, officials said.<\/p>\n The girl\u2019s aunt, Tyeesha Reynolds, told NBC Philadelphia that her daughter tried holding onto the young girl\u2019s jacket but wasn\u2019t able to keep the girl from slipping away into the rushing water.<\/p>\n NBC Philadelphia has also been told that several of the girl\u2019s family members also jumped in the water and started searching on their own before crews arrived.<\/p>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Law enforcement officials said Sunday afternoon that rescue efforts for a 6-year-old girl who was swept away in Pennsylvania’s Chester Creek on Saturday night have been abandoned. The effort that is ongoing, officials said, is now considered a recovery. \u201cThis is an extremely sad day for the City of Chester,\u201d said Chester Mayor Stefan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rescue](\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-03\/240324-chester-creek-vl-1043a-77d788.jpg\")
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