Austin Medics Respond To Near-Drowning At Lake Travis

NORTH AUSTIN, TX — Medics responded to a near-drowning at Lake Travis on Monday.

Austin-Travis County EMS medics said via Twitter an adult male victim was undergoing treatment after the incident that occurred along the 7000 block of Comanche Trail at around 4 p.m. The site is north of The Oasis at Lake Travis and in close proximity to Hippie Hollow.

In a departure from the typically detailed information medics provide on Twitter, officials didn't release any more information related to the incident —including the age of the victim or the nature of his injuries. "No further updates anticipated unless patient status/condition changes," medics wrote succinctly on Twitter.

There have been three drownings at Lake Travis this month alone, since May 5 when an Elgin, Texas, man went into the water without re-surfacing as his wife watched helplessly from their boat, in an area of the lake a Travis County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman told Patch reached depths of 140 feet (see story below).

The most recent drowning occurred on Sunday, when a man jumped into the water to save a woman in distress only to become a victim himself. The man's body, described as a Hispanic man in his 30s, was located early Monday afternoon. The bodies of the two other drowning victims — the Elgin man and a woman in her 20s who drowned last weekend after falling off the upper deck of a party barge — have yet to be found.

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FINAL: Near Drowning at 7000 Comanche Trail; Adult male is still undergoing treatment with transport disposition unknown. No further updates anticipated unless patient status/condition changes.
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