ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. — On Sunday, a child was taken to the hospital after being rescued from a notoriously dangerous swimming area on the Dan River in Rockingham County.
A boy and his family were swimming at the Dan River's Lindsey Bridge Access in Madison, when the boy became trapped in the water hydraulics flowing from a low-head dam, nicknamed the "Drowning Machine," according to Captain Roy Stewart with the Madison Rockingham Rescue Squad.