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Article: Muskego swimmer suffers asthma attack at lake
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2001
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Muskego swimmer suffers asthma attack at lake, dies
By DAVID SIDERS AND JACQUELINE SEIBEL
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, August 8, 2001
Ottawa -- Despite immediate assistance from four nurses and an
emergency medical technician, a Muskego man swimming in Ottawa Lake
died Tuesday after an asthma attack, witnesses and police said.
Medical workers who had been relaxing at the beach briefly revived
Matthew Hahm, who was pulled from the water about 2 p.m., witnesses
said. He was not breathing and did not have a pulse, said Wendy Hart,
a nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Milwaukee who tried to save him.
Hahm had walked to about 50 feet from the beach before he
collapsed and was dragged ...