According to Nikita Korobitsyn, chairman of the Kazan SRW Council, on the afternoon of August 17, on Komsomol Lake, eyewitnesses called for help from SRW rescuers from the other shore, opposite the rescue post. The man began to choke, rescuers took a boat to the scene, provided first aid, put him in a boat and brought him to shore. The drunk victim refused ambulance.