""The father heroically kept his son afloat throughout the ordeal, supporting him until rescue personnel arrived,""
""I would say it was ... at least 45 minutes that CPR was going on,""
""We could hear from the boat [someone] saying, 'Take the child to the ambulance.' ... Something tragic definitely happened.""
A 54-year-old father died while keeping his 7-year-old son afloat after their kayak capsized at Lake Perris State Recreation Area on Saturday afternoon. Rescuers recovered the unconscious father and the child holding onto his father's body shortly after 4 p.m. Officers and witnesses performed CPR for about 45 minutes. The child was taken by ambulance to a hospital and survived; the father was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Neither had been wearing life jackets despite a state law requiring them for children 12 and younger on moving vessels. A relative was evacuated after hyperventilating.
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