Police Searching For Florida Boy Who Disappeared In Lake
Polk County police are currently searching for a 9-year-old boy who fell into a lake and disappeared on Saturday. Reports tell us the incident took place at Lake Annie which is south of Dundee. The Port St. Lucie boy, his two brothers and Father were all on a pontoon boat when this happened. The boy fell over the front and was hit by the propeller. His father jumped into the water while the other son called 911. Police say the 9-year-old boy was not wearing a life jacket which Florida law does not require. First responders arrived to the lake and immediately started the search. The Polk County Sheriffs Office has their Marine unit, underwater search and recovery Team, Aviation Unit and drones all searching. So far the boy has not been found.
Sheriff Grady Judd released a statement saying “It’s a tragedy, and an unimaginable nightmare for the family of the boy, We are using extensive resources to find him. We’re working in a large lake with depths up to about 16 feet, with poor visibility, but we’ve been out there 24 hours a day, and will continue to be there until we find him.”
Check WFLA.Com for updates.
These are the Leading Causes of Death in Florida
To me, death has never been taboo. It’s something a lot of us think about but never speak on. Death is a topic some people prefer not to discuss, but we cannot escape it. Nobody has ever managed to escape it.
People die every single day, which isn’t a fun thing to talk about. That’s why we have to live every day as if it were our last. Oh, and we have heard all the jokes about how Florida is “God’s Waiting Room”, too. According to the CDC, the average age of death in Florida is 79 years old as of 2019.
It may not be pleasant, but it is a part of life. I think you will enjoy this list if you are a morbid person, just like me. All 2020 data are final. 2020 birth data come from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) via CDC WONDER; 2020 death data, including leading causes of death, firearm mortality, homicide, drug overdose mortality, and infant mortality, come from the NVSS via CDC WONDER and rankings and rates are based on 2020 age-adjusted death rates. The following is a list of Florida’s leading causes of death. You can see more on deaths in Florida here. Check out the list and see what the number one cause of death in Florida is. Take care, my friends.
Shandra “Babs” Littleton is a member of the WiLD Squad. She’s originally from Detroit but has spent most of her “grown-up” life in Fort Myers, Florida where she graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University. Babs loves to write about everything from Tampa concerts, to WiLD murders that happened in Florida, and her favorite businesses.