Kyle Doan was separated from his mother as the two were caught in a flooded California River. “It’s the worst thing imaginable if you’re a parent,” his father said, who recounted the separation. “You’re dealing with a tragedy where there’s no bad guy.'
Lindsy told Kyle to remove his seat belt and leave his backpack. They would exit the car through her door, where she could reach a tree, she told him.the door and bracing against the flowing water, she pulled Kyle out with one hand while holding the tree with the other. The water carried clay and debris from the riverbed, twisting her arms awkwardly and testing her grip. Then the creek forcefully pushed her hand against the tree, and Kyle was gone.Lindsy screamed for help.
“It’s the worst thing imaginable if you’re a parent,” Brian Doan said, who recounted the separation to The Washington Post on Wednesday. “You’re dealing with a tragedy where there’s no bad guy. You’re dealing with Mother Nature.”He was trying as much as he could to shield his wife from the media as the story grows into the national spotlight, and his son a stark symbol of the fear and pain Californians experienced this week.
Lindsy was not in a position to answer journalists’ questions on Wednesday, Brian said, because she was exhausted with guilt and regret, replaying each second of the separation, desperately trying to bring back her 5-year-old.The past year and a half had been difficult at times for Kyle. In August 2021, he tripped and fractured his femur. The recovery was hard for a boy who loved to play soccer, dance to hotel lobby music and play with his older siblings.
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