Girls to be honored for saving dad at Lake Tahoe
By Jennifer Shaw, Contra Costa Times
Veronica Tucker would have done the same thing if the man she helped save had been anyone else.
“Someone would’ve been waiting for him to come home,” the sixth-grader at North Creek Academy in Walnut Creek says of her valiant efforts.
In this case, she and a new summer camp cabin mate Grace McAdoo, both from Concord, instinctively teamed up to save Veronica’s dad.
The girls are being recognized with a proclamation by the Concord City Council, which will be presented at the meeting Sept. 9.
The girls were in the midst of enjoying a weeklong experience at Camp Concord at Lake Tahoe in July, where her dad was volunteering as a chaperon.
The elder Tucker, a diabetic — whose recent change in medication, coupled with the altitude and cold temperature of the lake — suddenly lost control of his extremities, struggled to breathe when his “chest locked up,” and managed to shout out for help, before the former longtime search-and-rescue volunteer started to sink beneath the water’s surface.
