Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to better reflect the circumstances. In a previous version, the word “drowning” was used, but that word most commonly is used to describe a fatal incident. As stated in this and previous versions, the teen was transported to the hospital.
A teenage boy was flown to a Philadelphia hospital after being pulled from the Neshaminy Creek Thursday afternoon.
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The incident happened in the creek near the Middletown Township, Bensalem Township, and Hulmeville Borough border around 2:45 p.m., according to sources.
The boy was taken by the Penndel-Middletown Emergency Squad from the scene not far from the Hulmeville Road bridge and to Hoover Elementary School where a Temple University Hospital medical chopper flew him for further treatment, two sources said.
The circumstances surrounding the drowning were not immediately known.
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The stretch of creek where the drowning happened is known to be dangerous and there have been drownings in the past.
The Middletown Township and Langhorne Borough police departments, along with the Middletown Township Department of Fire and Emergency Management and William Penn Fire Companies were spotted responding.
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