Rescue 911 - 2nd Pilot/Episode 108 - "Icy River"

[EliseBellBooks]

So amazing... though the research now says warming them quickly is better then slowly. Yes this is absolutely real. This is not the only time this has happened it's more frequent then you think. This isn't even the longest someone has been dead and then brought back. There is a ton of information and experiments on this. Unfortunately They were done by the Nazi's, so some people don't want us to use them. I figure something good has to come out of the holocaust tragedy, and we should learn.

[hollyandlauren97]

it would b life changing for me and my friend lauren if we wer dangling like that !! :(:(:( i carnt imagen wt it would b like for them .. :( x .. how very sad .. !! x

[loveybumblebee554]

ya play with a dead squirell, thats so much fun

[geoos]

notice how he dialed 91

[redsk8er155]

@geoos i know i wonder if this if this is even real do u think its real

[DorvellTStewart]

When you get more eps, Dave, could you post the Miami Cops documentary if you have it?

[jethangar]

This was in 1987. Today, Alvaro is an inspirational speaker and goes around the world lecturing what life after death is like.

[gregorkrause]

how do you even know he's an inspirational speaker?

[Throwerzz]

almost reminds me of that metalica song.

"trapped under ice"

[GrumpyGal82]

When someone is unconscious and without oxygen, being in such cold water slows down the metabolic rate of the brain and other organs so they don't need as much oxygen or energy. That preserves the chances of neurological recovery.

[HaggisMcMutton263]

This footage of the mother and the boy is very intense.

[H20fanatic20]

yea it is...

[BabyBopRocks]

That's dangerous where are their parent's !!

[rabbit929]

keep poking the river floor.

Maybe you'll stab him.

[1979brandy]

this boy had god by his side

[JustLogic24]

which is probably why he fell through the ice in the first place..

[BIGRED224FOREVER]

JR...............i got this bitches, besides juan said he give me (3 piece of cracker) wtf? he should have atleast bargained for a cd player at the time or even a ipod by todays standards!

[Brent0485]

Because as people in EMS put it, "your not dead, until your warm and dead."

[puffy0619]

J JGKFG

[loveyouxxaniek]

I don't understand..can someone explain me how that boy could survive 45 minutes without breating in that ice water.??? I thought you would die after 10 minutes without breathing :S

[hutchensriley]

You're basically freezing someone like you would see on a sci- fi show. When you "die" out of cold just on the street, there is nothing preserving your organs. When you die in freezing water, you can be ressucitated because it froze your organs, it didnt kill them

[Chislevs]

You do in normal circumstances, but in the cold the metabolism (energy use) of cells goes WAY down so they can go without oxygen for a way longer time. Thats how this kid survived.

[MomentOfReason]

From what I understand, the ice water slows down the function of the organs in the body. How that helps, I'm not sure...

[MomentOfReason]

From what I understand, the ice water slows down the function of the organs in the body. How that helps, I'm not sure...

[barakost]

You dont have to die after ten minutes, but you would be probably brain-dead, by the time. The cold water could play a significant role.. but still, it was a miracle.

[MomentOfReason]

I heard on another Rescue 911 video that cold water apparently slowly shuts down the body's systems, including the requirements to sustain life.

[Muggle423]

Hypothermia allows kids to be able to stand 45 minutes under ice cold water w/o oxygen. It's got something to do with the body undergoing internal and external cooling.

[XxJenxXtal]

it was the freezing water that preserved his body very lucky boy!!

[cae217]

In a nutshell, it is because the boy's body was so cold that he went into hibernation. Your blood vessels constrict and the body shuts down.

There is even a medical procedure today, in which Doctors and Paramedics can intentionally freeze a patient who has suffered certain types of injuries, in order to buy enough time to get the person to surgery.

As I recall the record down-time for this kind of thing is a little under two hours.

[luvmy4kids]

This sometimes happens in freezing cold water - it somehow preserves the person and they can be revived.

[Peace940]

@loveyouxxaniek maybe the cold slowed down the cell death or he didn't stop entirely but to the eye so it seemed..etc. Better yet, God didn't plan for them to die at that time. Simple as that.

[JustLogic24]

riiiiiiight.....

[ShadowoOfBlood]

OMG!! That poor squirel.

[gregorkrause]

5:41-5:42 is in the intro.

[sassyrulenumberone]

I know I may get thumbs down for this...but I live in Fargo. The news just did a story on Garza. He was arrested in texas for drug trafficking. And furthermore, the story about the dead squirrel isn't true. He was shoplifting at Scheel's Sports store and the police were chasing him. He ran onto the river and that's when it happened.

[allgood2000]

I don't believe the shoplifting story. Do you have any proof to back either of those statements up? I did a quick google search, and all the articles I found (published within five days of the incident) seem to confirm the squirrel story. Also, what is the name of the news station/paper that reported the drug trafficking story?

[sassyrulenumberone]

they won't post the story about the shoplifting because the event got so much positive media coverage the police department wouldn't release the actual events. I work for a local news station. google "alvaro garza arrest" it's the first story from texas.

[allgood2000]

Not to sound overly skeptical or anything, but why isn't he listed as Alvaro Garza, Jr. in that article? I noticed there were some other Jr.'s in there.

[shasrarak]

the more of these I see the more i want to be an emergancy worker when i get older.

[SassySweet24]

There is a 20 year later update on this video on youtube. Just look up Resuce 911 drownings and its on the second page

[OneThroughTaekwondo]

wow they played with a squirel lol lucky kid he survived

[motown505]

this a rescue well worth the effort to save this little boys life

[videogameplayer08]

if he was submerged for 45 minutes he wad have died

[quad80cc]

how did the boy stay alive

[NeuroticNightmares07]

Yes this is true. I was one of his classmates, and I am in the video (the balloon shot) The ambulance was not the one on the front of the episode by the way the background is my town I still live in. I was 10 when this happened, our class signed the banner you see hanging in the room. He is a miracle and I am glad he made it. . Bottom line is for the naysayers yes it is real. I was his classmate. He was dead. And the videos you see are real. By the way when he woke up he wanted a burger and coke

[vickiormindyb]

The freezing cold is what saved his life.

That's b/c cold slows down the body's response system. That's why they tell us in training that a patient isn't dead until they're warm and dead.

It sounds cruel but it's also true.

[XpolymerX]

lucky little shit

[catsandkittys]

OMG it is so scary looking when they pull him out of the water.

It must be so weird to know that you were "clinically dead" and then you wake up..it must be like getting born again.

[ndrssz]

is this story true a kid under frozen water for 45 mts and he is alive.

now this kid can make a movie or wright a book an be famouse.

[stellarspaz89]

It's actually normal for people to make full recoveries when they drown in cold water, especially this cold. The body basically shuts down to preserve only the essential organs: the brain and heart. People can live after being submerged for over an hour...

[leann824]

Its a true story. I remember seeing on the news when I was little. Most of the footage was taken by the news station as it was unfolding.

[acesarge2]

@ndrssz

I have seen people survive 3 hours under water and make a meaningful recovery(the person was in cardiac arrest but was revived). 45 minutes isn't that amazing.

[sassycassy99]

MY GOD 30 MINUTES....LUCKY LIL BOY..

[TSOfan1352]

wow

[anamallover]

I was wondering I just thought of I think was a resue 911 story about a man who rescued a boy from a river but the man ended up dying at the end of the story am I right??

[anamallover]

By the way I think the man was really famous lol

[allgood2000]

That was "Double Football Player" from Episode 109. The man who died was Jerry Anderson, a former NFL player.

[motown505]

i do not like the documenty or footage rescue 911 episodes. I like the reenactment ones because they show more detail. That kid had a lot of people rooting for him and the ambulance is the one shown at the beginning of each episode

[motown505]

what a damn lucky kid

[motown505]

what stupid boys!!!

[Im1man]

Whoa did this happen on 4th of december???......thats exactly a day after i

was born on december 3rd!!

[Titanic8765]

happy birthday

[lacross385]

kool!i was born december 8th

[palpatine55]

Rivers are too dangerous to walk on when frozen, because the current keeps the ice thin. Two inches is a bit too thin to walk on. Three and a half inches is the BARE minimum. But a river is usually never safe because of the fact that the ice thickness varies so much and there are always large, thin spots due to swifter current.

[OneSkiWonder]

When something like this happens the mother needs to be kept out of earshot from the scene. I don't care how bad they want their kid, if they are crying and screaming at you to hurry up it is only a distraction and makes the rescue take longer. The fathers usually aren't that bad, but the mother oh my god. If it weren't for needing to look professional, I'd yell for them to shut up so we can do our job quickly and efficiently.

[gregorkrause]

I'd Reenact this segment lol with a GIJOE boat and Gijoes that look like the rescuers in this clip along with a sink full of ice lol.

[Bandos624]

Dont Go onto the ice..

ESPICALLY... when UR ON RESCUE 911!!!

Cuz sumtin has 2 go wrong! :P

[GetOutOfMyHouseYo]

Next time don't play with frozen animals "k"?

[dirtbag1966]

One Of The Fire Trucks Looked Like A Lego city set that I`m Get Soon

PS.Feel sorry that Kid.

[gregorkrause]

the ambulance at 1:36-37 should've been used as a returning image.

[PredatorBrendan]

Wow! This is like a true miracle had occured. Also the first animated intro after commericial break is on it.

[lordmomus]

The water the night the "Titanic" sank was four degrees colder. Can you imagine how cold that would have been? It's no wonder they died so quickly.

[Jerrycobra]

ahh.... this is were the intro was taped from!

[angelsgurl]

wow, this makes me love the medical field. Ive heard of stuff like this happening before but i wish they would have explained exactly how he survived.

[phillip2888]

when your body temperature drops your body slows down and doesn't consume oxygen as fast as normal, and this can help your survival.

[missyjay6]

Just think... all that over a dead rodent...

[jerrylee76]

wow the ambulance pulling away is the intro for the rest of the episodes..good to know where the footage came from

[OneSkiWonder]

Holy crap, your right! :D

[emt89]

I work at Fargo-Moorhead ambulance. hehe

[les4choupaschweppes]

1 luckey kid!!

[kofoot65]

Why havent the firedepartment Divers ?? would be much more easy to dive then using sticks

[sexigurl112]

they said they didnt have the rite equipment with em :(

[bringyabeer]

Wow.... thats unheard of.....!!!

[bowber]

thats fuckin sweet that we can take a dead person and bring them back to life

[itsalleternal]

We just passed the 20th anniversary of this...someone else posted a news story about where he is 20 years later...

[Huddleupgurlz07]

i was 6 when they showed this on TV

[sexigurl112]

i was just been born pmsl

[tddeyoung]

I remember reading about it in the paper at home. When I went to college 11 years later, we talked about this in journalism class. The shot of the fireman carrying the boy out did NOT get put in the paper. The news director at my school was on the paper at that time. If I remember correctly, the photo bureau chief said "I am NOT putting a photo of a dead child in the paper." They did end up running it at the end of the year, or at the 10 year anniversary.

[bigawright]

Does anybody have any of the original coverage of this from KVLY, KXJB, or WDAY? If so, I would love to see it posted on YouTube in the future.

[NDW85]

If you ask me, Junior was out of his mind going on the ice.

[sexigurl112]

but hes just a kid, kids dont think anything bad cud happen to em

[mahlerssecond]

I remember this well also. People in the Upper Midwest followed this young man's progress when this happened in '87. For some reason the media never covers stories like this type anymore.

[mahlerssecond]

I was talking to someone from Fargo a couple of weeks ago about this incident. He said that it is still brought up on a regualr basis, 20 years later.

[emt89]

wow, sorry about my grammer in the last comment:) ... medic student not medic school....surviving no serviving :)

[emt89]

I am currently a medic school at F-M Ambulance. I hear a lot of stories about this call. This is truly 100% a miracle. Yes, people do have a chance of serviving in this situation, but it is not best.

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[DodgeyDebs]

i was born December 16th 1989 im a christmas baby too yay!

[lizzykat2]

I was born on December 16th 1987 I'm a christmas baby

[davinp]

I was born pn December 2th, 1978. I was expected the week of Christmas, so I was born 3 weeks early.

[IcePrincess73]

Oh Jesus, I take that is actual footage of the rescue. That poor kid. If I saw one of my kids in that state I would drop dead on the spot from distress. xoxo

[allgood2000]

Yep, there are quite a few episodes where most of the story was caught on tape as it actually happened, like the one where the paramedic got hit by a racecar. That footage of him flying through the air was real.

[chrisz71]

That is nothing short of a miracle. God must have something BIG planned for his life.

[jdoc2]

ok wait, so he had been under water for 45 MINUTES without breathing on deep freeze water, his heart didnt beat at all for hours and he still got away with full recovery?

My God, that's unbelievable!

[allgood2000]

The cold slows down your metabolism so your brain doesn't need as much oxygen.

[Trathil]

i dont either think you deserve to live if you think so.

[erinboone]

dumbest kid EVER

he doesnt even deserve to survive

idiot

[KnottyNate]

That is an awful thing to say! Kids are naturally dumb or overtly curious about things. Does not mean that they deserve to die as the result!

[AshtonLover7806]

what! yes he does hes just a kid...kids dont think bad things can happen...grr....wow that was way rude

[RuneKid1]

oh wait, there are more children survived in 45 mins

[RuneKid1]

I remember this. has been told about this a lot. I thought the guy was norwegian

[mahlerssecond]

I think the boy was Latino/ Hispanic.

[KLA487]

this is a miracle!

[kristin9898]

i never saw this one

[gregorkrause]

I love this segment because

1. Some scenes are used in intro

2. the ambulance heading to the hospital is used when Rescue 911 returns in this segment