MAN DIES AFTER WATER RESCUE ATTEMPT MICHIGAN AVE AND WACKER DR., CHICAGO

SEP 21 2012 ~4:30 PM
CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT
WATER RESCUE
MICHIGAN AVENUE AND WACKER DR., CHICAGO, IL

6-8-6 REQUESTED THAT 6-8-8 PUT DIVERS IN THE WATER. CPR/ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT REPORTED UNDERWAY. FOUR-AMBULANCE RESPONSE.

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Fire, paramedics and police responded to the DuSable Bridge about 4:30 p.m.  Antonio Peterson, 26, was pulled out of the water shortly before 5:00 p.m. after witnesses pointed to the location on the surface where he went underwater. Peterson was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Another man jumped into the river to try to save Antonio Peterson, but the citizen rescuer could not reach him and was pulled out of the water by personnel on a water taxi.