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Upon receiving the award, Fitzgerald recalled the experience once more. He said: “I was there by myself and I dug her out and performed CPR on her.”
His doting father again praised his son for his bravery, reiterating just how proud he was of the boy’s actions.
“I think he would do it again tomorrow,” Tim Fitgerald said. “To him, to us, it’s not something, you know, that is extraordinary. It’s just that somebody needed help so I got to do something.”
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The incident wasn’t the first of its likes. According to Ocean City Today, several dozen individuals have lost their lives in a sand-digging related accident in the past decade. Bradley Maron, a Harvard researcher, estimated around 60% of sand hole collapses globally to end fatally.