An off-duty Midlothian firefighter rescued three children after a boat carrying nine people capsized at Alvarado Lake, according to accounts from Alvarado police and the firefighter published by two local television stations.
NBC 5 reported, citing Alvarado police, that the three children were trapped beneath the overturned boat. Police said two were initially unresponsive and the off-duty firefighter revived them before emergency crews arrived.
The rescuer’s account
CBS Texas identified the firefighter as Jason Horne and reported details from its interview with him. Horne said he pulled out a boy who was breathing, then performed compressions on an unresponsive girl.
According to the CBS Texas account, Horne continued searching for a third child while his daughter called 911. That interview supplies the sequence of the underwater searches and resuscitation efforts, while the police-attributed NBC 5 report establishes the number of people aboard and the children trapped beneath the boat.
What is known about the children
NBC 5 reported that all three children were taken to a hospital for evaluation and observation. The station also reported that no other life-threatening injuries were reported.
The approved reports do not establish what caused the boat to capsize or provide the children’s later conditions. The incident and rescue are therefore presented here as attributed accounts from police and Horne, not as independently confirmed facts.
