Rip Current — Southern Queens, New York
August 15, 2015 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
A five-year-old East Flatbush resident named Ezekiel Gray drowned in the ocean waters off Jacob Riis Park Beach in Queens late Saturday afternoon, police say.||Around 5 p.m., when NYPD responders arrived to the beach, they say they ���discovered an unconscious and unresponsive 5-year-old male who was removed from the water by an on-duty lifeguard.���||By the time the FDNY arrived, Gray had gone into ���cardiac arrest,��� says a spokesman.||Gray was then rushed to Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville, where he was pronounced dead.||The boy���s ���distraught��� aunt tells the New York Daily News that Gray had been attending a ���large family party��� at the park on Saturday afternoon, and got stuck in a riptide after entering the ocean with two siblings.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.