North Carolina family talks about experiencing duck boat tragedy
JACKSONVILLE, NC (WCTI) — The Yost family is back in Jacksonville from a trip they’ll never forget.
“I said, ‘Look bad things happen but we have to look at 14 people who are alive because we got out there and did the best we could’,” said Regina Yost, a trauma nurse who helped at the scene of the duck boat accident last week in Branson, Mo.
The Yosts were on a larger boat nearby when the duck boat began to sink in rough weather. Yost convinced the crew to let her and her family help. She recalled the emotional rescue attempt for a boy she believes was Reece Coleman, one of the members of the family that lost nine in the tragedy.
“Somebody screamed, ‘there’s a kid in the water’ and a gentleman that was up on the higher dock with me had a life vest on and he jumped in and pushed the kid over to my husband (Lee),” Yost said. “My husband picked him up and my husband was just holding him screaming my name. And I kept telling him ‘you’ve gotta get him to me!’ And so he ran him upstairs and we took him in.”
Yost said she and another nurse spent 30 minutes trying to save the boys but were unsuccessful.
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