August 24, 2009
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7-year-old girl Clio Axilrod killed by large wave in Maine is daughter of New York banker (click title to entry - thank you)
BY Melissa Grace AND Helen Kennedy
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Updated Monday, August 24th 2009, 3:55 PM
A New York investment banker was hospitalized Monday in Maine after a huge freak wave swept him and his beloved 7-year-old daughter out to sea Sunday, drowning the girl.
Clio Dahyun Axilrod spent more than three hours in turbulent 55-degree waters before she was located by a helicopter and recovered by a Coast Guard motorboat.
She could not be revived.
"When we picked her up, she was unconscious and unresponsive," said paramedic Jimmy Wilmerding, who also treated her father. "She was hypothermic."
Peter Axilrod, 55, who just had a heart bypass operation, was in intensive care at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
Video released by the Coast Guard showed him screaming in pain as, strapped to a stretcher to protect his spine, he was transferred from a rescue boat.
Friends said he doted on Clio, who was adopted from China as a baby, and would have dived into the stormy seas to save her if the monster wave hadn't taken him away, too.
The girl's mom, Sandra Kuhach, 51, was also hospitalized, according to the Maine Marine Patrol. Her injuries were unknown....
