goers. many of the victims die outside the theater. there was just panic. we got to get them out. they were ju just dumping them outside. people were literally suffocating to death outside. there weren t enough doctors there who were actually checking. all right. is he breathing? if he s not breathing, resuscitate him. put him in a recovery position. that was the issue. i have absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever that more people could have been saved. in the panic, svletnana and her 13-year-old daughter are separated. the story ends tragically. near her american fiance nor her daughter survive. sasha ended up on the very bottom of the pile. she was crushed. no chance of surviving with such a rescue. svletnana s life is changed forever. she lost a daughter.
they were dumping them outside. people were literally suffocating to death outside. there weren t enough doctors there who were actually checking. all right. is he breathing? if he s not breathing, resuscitate him, is put him in a recovery position. that was the issue. i have absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever that more people could have been saved. in the panic, svletnana and her 13-year-old daughter are separated. the story ends tragically. near her american fiance nor her daughter survive. sasha ended up on the very bottom of the pile. she was crushed. no chance of surviving with such a rescue. svletnana s life is changed forever. she lost a daughter. i m still coming to terms with it, living with it. i m trying to survive somehow.
we got to get them out. they were dumping them outside. people were literally suffocating to death outside. there weren t enough doctors there who were actually checking. all right. is he breathing? if he s not breathing, resuscitate him, is put him in a recovery position. that was the issue. i have absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever that more people could have been saved. in the panic, svletnana and her 13-year-old daughter are separated. the story ends tragically. near her american fiance nor her daughter survive. sasha ended up on the very bottom of the pile. she was crushed. no chance of surviving with such a rescue. svletnana s life is changed forever. she lost a daughter. i m still coming to terms with it, living with it.
out of the water. iรง put him in the recovery position and had a nurse come and help me. he cared for the victim until paramedic arrived. when he got become to his chair, he feared he was in trouble. i m going to lose my job. the management, outside company used by the city to manage the lifeguards fired lopez for leaving his assigned area and not following proper procedures. i was prepared for it. it wasn t too much of an upset because i had my morals intact. here knew the incident wasn t in his zone, but he felt like he had to do something. nbc news spoke with the management company where the president said we need to know the facts of what happened. once this investigation is complete, if we did something inappropriate, we will make it right. that includes offering him his employment back if he was terminated in haste. several others quit in protest over the incident.
for help and he jumped out of his lifeguard chair. i was on stand and someone came up to me and said someone was drowning. people were screaming. reporter: he ran past the green flag to a location several hundred feet away. there a man was struggling in the water in an unguarded section of the beach where a sign said swim at your own risk. on the radio i heard tommy saying i m going for a rescue but it s out of our zone, and then our manager matt, matt williams, he was telling him, don t go. just call 911. reporter: when lopez arrived at the scene, beachgores pulled him out of the water. i put him in a recovery position and had a nurse come to help me. when he got back to his chair he feared he was in trouble. i thought i m going to lose my job, aren t i. reporter: that is exactly what happens. jeff ellis management, the company used outside hallandale beach used to manage their lifeguards fired lopez for