Opinion ID: 4538359
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Heading: facts

Text: We recite the facts as alleged in the plaintiff['s] complaint, accepting all well-pleaded facts as true and drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of the non-moving party. Squeri v. Mount Ida Coll., 954 F.3d 56, 61 (1st Cir. 2020) (citing Penate v. Hanchett, 944 F.3d 358, 362 (1st Cir. 2019)). The amended complaint's description of the events giving rise to this case is unusually spartan. On June 12, 2018, R.I. took part in a school-sponsored field trip to Range Pond State Park in Poland, Maine for a group of seventh-graders. One-hundred eleven students were accompanied on the trip by eleven chaperones, all of whom were Lewiston School Department employees. The amended - 2 - complaint does not allege whether any parents accompanied the field trip. When the students arrived at Range Pond, the team leader discussed ground rules with the students. DACF only provided one lifeguard at the beach area and did not offer or provide a lifeguard or other representative to discuss safety rules within the group. As to the circumstances of R.I.'s death, the amended complaint alleges only that, at some point after 11 a.m., a student reported to a chaperone that he could not locate R.I. According to witnesses, the lifeguard on duty appeared not to know what to do in the situation and asked other chaperones to get in the water to look for R.I. After rescue personnel arrived, they were able to locate R.I. R.I. was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead after arrival. (numbering omitted). The amended complaint's final allegation is that the defendants' failure . . . to follow their protocols[] created a danger to R.I. from which they had a duty to protect him.