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BREAKING: Child Nearly Drowns at Berryessa

The girl, 8, from Burlingame, fell over as she was overcome by carbon monoxide as the boat was idling.

By Bay City News Service

An 8-year-old Burlingame girl fell into Lake Berryessa today when she was overcome by carbon monoxide from the idling motor on her family's boat, a Napa County sheriff's captain said.

The girl was on the back end of the boat around noon as it slowly approached a dock at Markley Cove at the south end of the lake, Capt. Tracey Stuart said.

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The exhaust began to affect the girl, who was wearing a flotation device, and she fell into the water, Stuart said. The girl's father saw her fall and rescued her, Stuart said.

The close call comes on the heels of a drowning and a near-drowning over the weekend.

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On Sunday afternoon, Kevin Yip, 24, of San Francisco, drowned in the Pleasure Cove area of the lake when he jumped off a pontoon boat to swim
without a flotation device.

He was seen struggling in the water before he disappeared. Sheriff's divers recovered his body Monday morning.

The same afternoon that Yip drowned, a 6-month old baby became trapped under a capsized boat on the lake. The child was taken to a hospital but is expected to survive, Stuart said.

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