Emergency responders were called to Field Pond in Harold Parker State Forest in Andover at about 4:30 p.m. First responders arrived at the shoreline to find several male juveniles on the opposite shoreline yelling to direct them to where a juvenile male was last seen before going under water. Responders entered the water using a paddle board and flotation devices and located the boy about 25 feet from shore submerged in roughly 10 to 12 feet of water. Life-saving measures began on the paddle board. The boy was transported by ambulance to Lawrence General Hospital and then medflighted to a Boston hospital. No condition update was available as of Wednesday morning, and the incident remained under investigation.
"Emergency personnel responded to the call from Field Pond, which is in Harold Parker State Forest, at about 4:30 p.m., Andover police said in a release. There, "first responders arrived at the shoreline to find several male juveniles who were on the opposite shoreline yelling to them attempting to direct them toward where the juvenile male was last observed prior to going under water.""
"The first responders, using a paddle board and floatation devices, then entered the water and located the boy near where he was last seen, about 25 feet from shore and submerged in roughly 10 to 12 feet of water, police said. Life-saving measures commenced on the paddle board, and the boy was brought via ambulance to Lawrence General Hospital before being medflighted to Boston."
"There was no update on the boy's condition as of Wednesday morning, and the incident remained under investigation, police said."
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