An elderly boat operator remains hospitalized in critical condition after authorities pulled him from Paint Lake in Oxford Township on Sunday afternoon, deputies reported.<\/p>\n
The Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the 77-year-old Rochester Hills resident was spotted by onlookers in a Paint Lake public boat launch unresponsive approximately 20 feet of from the shore.<\/p>\n
Officials said the sheriff\u2019s search and rescue team and the Oxford Township were dispatched about 1:20 p.m.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said responding deputies removed the man from the water and immediately initiated lifesaving measures. He was subsequently transferred to paramedics and transported to a local hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation determined the man fell from a dock while launching a boat. He was not wearing a life jacket at the time of the incident. Alcohol does not appear to have been a contributing factor, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The Rochester Hills man was hospitalized Sunday evening, where he was reported to be in critical but stable condtiion.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s search and rescue team is continuing its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly boat operator remains hospitalized in critical condition after authorities pulled him from Paint Lake in Oxford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[138,181,795,100,143,904,145,144,903],"class_list":["post-508124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-michigan","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oxford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}