Commissioners in the South Florida community will discuss adding lifeguards on the beach and establishing an ordinance against digging holes on Tuesday.
Sloan Mattingly s grieving uncle, Chris Sloan said the young girl kept trying to hold on to Maddox s leg to get out of the sand but eventually the boy could not feel her moving anymore
The seven-year-old girl had been digging a deep hole with her brother Maddox, nine, when it collapsed. Beachgoers at the scene rushed to pull out the pair, but Sloan died after being taken to hospital.
The 7-year-old Sloan Mattingly tragically died after she was buried alive in a sand hole collapse while playing with her brother, Maddox, on a Florida beach. A relative says she was trying to grab her brother's leg in her final moments