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The Doan Law Firm, P.C. has made a generous donation to The Texas Drowning Prevention Alliance (TXDPA) on behalf of a client involved in a near-drowning incident at a private school during a summer day camp. The boy has since made a full recovery. The TXDPA is a non-profit organization founded in September 2011 dedicated to preventing drowning incidents throughout the state of Texas. The group provides educational materials, safety checklists, and anti-drowning resources to families, pediatricians and communities in…

When 21-year-old Gregory Minetti began having trouble coming ashore during a storm near Newport, RI, his 23-year-old friend jumped in to try to save him. He drowned instead. Nicholas Napolitano, 23, died Sunday in Newport in an attempt to save a friend from drowning. The incident began when the 21-year-old jumped from a rocky ledge into the roiling water, but immediately began struggling in the 6-8-foot waves. Instead of waiting for the firefighters, who had recently been summoned, Napolitano jumped…

St. Joseph, , police have ruled a hotel hot tub drowning of a three-year-old boy and accident, as indicated from a recent autopsy performed on the boy. The death of Parker James Wilson, who died earlier this month that occurred while Parker was visiting St. Joseph’s Ramada Inn Monkey Cove Water Park with his grandparents and siblings, The accident occurred while the grandfather was watching two other children at a water slide . When he noticed that Parker had slid…

A member of Mission High School’s 2010 Academic Athletic Association championship boys’ basketball team, Stafone Jackson, 20, died on a camping trip of an apparent drowning earlier this month. Reports say that a swim with his friends was more difficult than it appeared and about halfway back, Jackson began yelling for help and quickly sank before his friends could get to him. Jackson, who was entering his second year at UC Riverside, was at the Union Valley Reservoir in North…

Search teams recently found the body of a man who had been feared drowned in Dalewood Lake, near Meridian, Miss. Charles “Chip” Fleming, 42, of Kemper County, disappeared underwater early in the week while swimming with friends who were aboard a pontoon boat. Fleming was not wearing a life jacket. His body was recovered the following evening after a search that had to be suspended at times because of stormy weather. The Doan Law Firm P.C. has extensive experience in…