Kevin Lee Weatherlow died helping to save Benjamin G. Walker from suffocation, Lancaster, Pennsylvania., June 13, 1981. Benjamin, 8, entered a cesspool tank and was overcome by carbon dioxide. Weatherlow, 23, a college student working as a paramedic, tied a rope around himself and went into the cesspool with an airpack after another paramedic had been overcome just after entering the tank. Shortly after Weatherlow entered, Benjamin was pulled out by others by means of a rope. Weatherlow was later found overcome, lying near the other paramedic. Neither man could be revived. Benjamin was revived and hospitalized. 57827-6553
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