Man pronounced dead at hospital after being pulled from waters at Rhode Island beach

PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management is confirming that at around 12:30 p.m. today, lifeguards at Misquamicut State Beach pulled an unresponsive adult male from the water.

Lifeguards tried to resuscitate the man by administering CPR and using an automated external defibrillator until Westerly EMS and DEM’s Division of Law Enforcement responded at around 12:45 p.m.

Westerly emergency personnel transported the man to Westerly Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

DEM had no further details to release at this time.