‘It was therapeutic’: Boy reunites with off-duty paramedics who rescued him from drowning

Tyonne Nelson was celebrating his birthday with family at a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea resort last month when tragedy nearly struck in an instant.

Nelson, of Miami Gardens, had spent an hour at the beach near the Plunge Beach Resort with his 5-year-old son, Tyler, on May 24. When the boy got hungry about 4 p.m., they headed to the resort pool to relax and eat, Nelson told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Monday.

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