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Winston-Salem resident Antonio Burns helped rescue two girls at Kure Beach Antonio Burns, a Winston-Salem photographer and videographer, was getting out of the water Sunday afternoon at Kure Beach when a nearby friend told him that he saw two girls struggling offshore. âStop playing,â Burns said to his friend, but then he looked and also realized that the girls were in distress. âI felt that they didnât know how to swim,â Burns said. âEverything happened so fast.â Burns, 27, then joined four other beach-goers who entered the water to try to reach the girls who appeared to be about 30 yards offshore. Burns, a graduate of the Quality Education Academy in Winston-Salem, described himself as an average swimmer. ....
Winston-Salem resident Antonio Burns helped rescue two girls at Kure Beach Antonio Burns, a Winston-Salem photographer and videographer, was getting out of the water Sunday afternoon at Kure Beach when a nearby friend told him that he saw two girls struggling offshore. âStop playing,â Burns said to his friend, but then he looked and also realized that the girls were in distress. âI felt that they didnât know how to swim,â Burns said. âEverything happened so fast.â Burns, 27, then joined four other beach-goers who entered the water to try to reach the girls who appeared to be about 30 yards offshore. Burns, a graduate of the Quality Education Academy in Winston-Salem, described himself as an average swimmer. ....
The rescuers tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate Embry, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Burns was semi-conscious and having difficulty breathing when he was pulled from the water, his mother said. He was taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center by ambulance. When his vital signs became unstable on Sunday night, Antonio Burns was put on a ventilator. He was taken off of the ventilator on Monday night and on Tuesday was scheduled to have an X-ray to see whether there was any water remaining in his lungs. Overall, we re praying for a full recovery, Asteria Burns said, but I know mentally this is something that he is going to have to deal with. ....