Understanding this allows you to deconstruct your normal and create the new “normal” you seek for your life. If there is one thing that living in another culture will reveal, it’s that “normal” is relative to what you have seen, observed, and accepted to be true. One of the themes of the program is challenging students to redefine “normal”. Whether the truck was left in neutral or one of the children accidentally bumped it from park to neutral while they were in the vehicle was still being investigated, according to the sheriff’s office.It is not by accident that Submerge operates on foreign soil. But the Summit County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday stated that after the truck was pulled out of the water, it was discovered that the vehicle was in neutral, the key was in the ignition and the parking brake was not on. The boy’s father believes he had the truck in park, Donnell said. The investigation into why the truck rolled into the water continued Tuesday. There was one time I couldn’t get out of the truck, I couldn’t find the exit. That I had the training, the experience, I was a great swimmer, to be able to go down and dive down there six or seven times. “I believe God put me there for a reason, so I believe it was right place, right time. On Tuesday, Donnell said he was thankful he found the boy, again emphasizing that he knew he couldn’t just leave him in the truck. Fortunately, they still had cell service at the reservoir, Donnell said. When he got the boy to shore, he and two bystanders performed CPR until medical crews arrived to take the boy to a hospital. By that point, he said the boy was floating near the truck’s roof close to the front windshield. I think I went down a total of seven times, maybe, and I think the seventh dive is when I finally found him,” he said.ĭonnell says he remembers reaching in the truck and feeling the boy’s clothing and then yanking the boy close to his chest. So I just kept going up, getting air, going back down. “So I swam in, I looked for him, I couldn’t hold my breath more than 30, 40 seconds probably, and I had to resurface. He swam around the truck and found a rear passenger door open. He said the vehicle was no longer visible, but he could see the bubbles on the water’s surface being created by the submerged pickup. That’s when Donnell said he took off his life jacket and dove after the boy. “I remember seeing him vividly tossing her 10 feet,” he said.īut by that point the grandfather was too fatigued to dive down to find the other 9-year-old boy still in the truck, according to police.
Donnell said the grandfather then threw the toddler to Donnell’s wife who was nearby.
The family’s grandfather, who was fishing on shore, jumped in the water and was able to grab the 2-year-old girl just as the truck went fully under the water. One of the 9-year-old boys was able to get out of the truck on his own and swim to shore. And I heard my wife just praying,” Donnell said. “‘Dios,’ which in Spanish is ‘God’ - that’s what the mother was saying and also the first 9-year-old boy that was pulled out was saying ‘Dios,’ yelling out for God. Just as he was coming into shore, he “noticed the pickup truck started to roll forward and slowly went into the water, people chasing after it, a lot of screaming and crying and I wasn’t sure how many people were in there.”ĭonnell described it as a very “chaotic” situation with a lot of people crying, screaming and praying. The truck ended up about 20 to 30 feet from shore and was completely submerged in about 15 to 20 seconds.Īlso at the reservoir that day kayaking with his wife and daughter was Donnell, a park ranger who retired in 2016 with 25 years of service. A man and his wife were outside the truck with their three children, ages 9, 9 and 2, inside the vehicle, when the truck - which was facing toward the reservoir - began to roll into the water. Monday afternoon, a North Salt Lake family had their pickup truck on the boat ramp at the reservoir as they loaded their kayaks. But because of Donnell’s heroic actions, the boy at least has a chance. That 9-year-old boy remained in extremely critical condition and on life support Tuesday morning.
I just kept going, praying hard,” he said Tuesday. I know I couldn’t live with myself, so I kept diving. OAKLEY, Summit County - Joe Donnell still gets emotional as he thinks about the boy he pulled out of a pickup truck that had been under the water at Smith and Morehouse Reservoir for about 10 minutes.
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