By Kevin Allenspach
SC Times
SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. — Greg Bomstad has been on the Sauk Rapids Fire Department for 14 years. In that time, he’s been thrust into many difficult circumstances — including being among the first responders to a fatal accident involving a teenage girl a little more than a week ago.
But even Bomstad began to wonder if fate was working against him on Sunday morning. He was on vacation at the Holiday Inn Express waterpark in Baxter with his wife, their 5- and 1-year-old daughters, and his parents, when their joy in the pool was interrupted by the discovery of a lifeless 6-year-old boy under the water.
Bomstad realized something might be wrong when another father jumped into the pool near him and said, “Is this kid faking?”
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