The seven-year-old girl died in the Thunder Hole incident has been identified as Clio Dahyun Axilrod. Clio Axilrod is the daughter of a New York investment banker, who is also fighting for his life as huge wave in Maine swept him as well during the incident that took place on Sunday. According to reports the little unfortunate girl Clio Axilrod remained in the turbulent 55-degree waters for more than three hours before she was spotted by a coast guard on a helicopter. Jimmy Wilmerding was the paramedic who tried to revive her but his efforts went all in vain. He said,

“When we picked her up, she was unconscious and unresponsive,”

Clio Axirod’s father, 55-year-old Peter Axilrod recently had a heart bypass operation is being treated in Bangor at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. According to some sources close to the Axilrod family said that Clio was adopted by Peter and his wife Sandra as a baby from China and if Peter did not got involved in the incident, he would have been dived into the water to save his daughter. Peter’s wife 51-year-old Sandra Kuhach was also hospitalized as her leg was broken in the incident.

Clio was onto began her second grade at the Town School. According to their neighbors, her mother took her for swimming in the pool at their East End Ave regularly.

The unfortunate family was among the 10,000 people who gathered to watch the spectacular surf kicked up by Hurricane Bill on the cliffs of Acadia National Park.

Peter Axilrod

Thunder Hole