The entrance to Sand Hollow State Park seen in the summer of 2018. | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
HURRICANE — A 60-year-old woman was transported to the hospital Wednesday evening after nearly drowning at Sand Hollow Reservoir.
Jonathan Hunt, Sand Hollow State Park manager, said the unnamed woman was transported in serious condition to the hospital after she was found unconscious in the shallow water by her family while they were at the south beach of the reservoir.
“It’s one of those fantastic beaches where it is a slope. She was exercising in the lake,” Hunt said. “They (family members) turned around and realized they couldn’t see her anymore.”
The woman was brought to shore and the family and other onlookers called 911. CPR was performed on the woman and she was revived before being transported.
“She was probably in only 3 to 4 feet of water,” Hunt said. “Why she went under, we don’t know.”
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Chris Reed serves as a reporter for St. George News, where he has been honored with several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work, including first-place accolades. He started his journalism career as a sports reporter and editor in Southern California where he once compared shoe sizes with Shaquille O'Neal and exchanged mix tapes with members of the Los Angeles Kings. After growing up in the San Fernando Valley learning karate skills from Mr. Miyagi and spending a decade in Las Vegas mostly avoiding the casinos, he came to St. George for love and married his soulmate, a lifetime Southern Utah resident. He is the proud father of two boys, his youngest a champion against both autism and Type 1 diabetes.