PHOENIX – A young boy was taken to the hospital after being pulled from a swimming pool Sunday afternoon.Phoenix firefighters said a 2-year-old was underwater for about a minute before being removed from the pool near 35th Street and Baseline.
Source: 2-year-old taken to hospital in Phoenix drowning call – ABC15 Arizona
GLENDALE, AZ – Glendale firefighters responded Thursday night to a near-drowning.
First responders were called to a home near Deer Valley Road and 75th Avenue.Authorities said a 2-year-old boy was pulled from a backyard pool.
One of his family members administered CPR, and he started crying.
Source: Glendale firefighters respond to near-drowning – ABC15 Arizona
PEORIA, AZ – Rescue crews performed CPR on an 18-year-old man after a near-drowning at Lake Pleasant on Saturday afternoon, but Clayton Waggle was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
According to the Peoria Fire Department, firefighters were performing life-saving efforts on Waggle, who did not know how to swim and was not wearing a life jacket.
Rescue crews said Waggle was trying to cross the lake by walking across buoys when he fell into the water. The man’s brother pulled him out of the water.
Source: MCSO: Man, 18, dies after near-drowning at Lake Pleasant – ABC15 Arizona
PHOENIX – A 5-month-old baby girl was taken to a hospital after the child was left unattended in a bathtub.
According to the Phoenix Fire Department, the baby was crying when rescue crews arrived to an apartment complex near 23rd Avenue and Camelback Road.
The infant was taken in stable condition to a hospital. The Phoenix Police Department said the baby will remain in a hospital overnight as a precautionary measure.
They said detective will investigate the incident to check for any indications of a crime, which is a normal protocol.
Source: Baby left unattended in bathtub taken to hospital – ABC15 Arizona
TEMPE, AZ – A 2-year-old boy has died after being found at the bottom of an 11-foot murky pool at a house near Rural Road and Southern Avenue.
Officials said police were originally called to the home Monday after the boy’s family called to report him missing. Once police and firefighters arrived, they found the boy at the bottom of the pool. He was taken to a hospital in very critical condition.
It is not known how long the boy was in the pool for, but officials said the pool gate was open.
Source: PD: 2-year-old dies after being found at bottom of murky pool in Tempe – ABC15 Arizona
GLENDALE, AZ – Officials say a 5-year-old boy who was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday after being found in a backyard pool has died.
The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at a home near 61st Avenue and Greenway Road.
Glendale firefighters tell ABC15, the child was able to unlatch the pool gate to get access to the water.
Source: FD: 5-year-old boy dies after being found in pool in Glendale – ABC15 Arizona
A 3-year-old boy was transported to a local hospital Sunday evening in stable condition after he was found floating face down in a backyard pool in Goodyear, officials said.
The boy was awake and alert when firefighters arrived at about 5 p.m. at a home in the 10700 block of South Santa Fe Lane in the Estrella community, said Battalion Chief Russ Braden, a spokesman for the Goodyear Fire Department.
He was transported to Abrazo West Campus in Goodyear for further evaluation and treatment, Braden said.The boy was reportedly in the fenced pool area with family members who were cleaning up from the day’s activities when his 10-year-old stepbrother spotted him in the water and pulled him out, Braden said.
The boy’s father used the Heimlich maneuver, which caused him to cough up water, start breathing and begin crying, Braden said.
Source: Goodyear boy, 3, pulled from backyard pool by stepbrother | West Valley View
PHOENIX – A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after a near-drowning in west Phoenix, according to fire officials.
The Phoenix Fire Department said the child was pulled from a swimming pool at a home near 71st Avenue and McDowell Road at approximately 2 p.m. Sunday. The boy was taken Phoenix Children’s Hospital in extremely critical condition.
Phoenix police spokesman James Holmes said the child’s mother told officers that she was inside cleaning when another one of her children alerted her to the toddler in the pool.
Source: Phoenix FD: Toddler in critical condition after near-drowning – ABC15 Arizona
Today, we had a baby nearly drown in a bathtub.
The other three children were pulled from swimming pools in the past 12 days; four children, two boys and two girls.
And all of them were two years old or younger.
Kristi’s Kids is keeping track and sounding the alarm.
“We’ve had other seasons that have started earlier, but this is bad, not where we’ve had fatal incidents right from the get go,” said Drexel Heights Fire District spokesperson Tracy Koslowski. “That’s the difference I’m seeing this year.”
Source: Kristi’s Kids: A deadly start to swim season – KVOA | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -A toddler drowned on Tucson’s east side Saturday, according to city police.
It is the third water incident involving a child in only 10 days.
On Feb. 27, an 18-month-old boy drowned in the 10400 block of North Flintlock Trail. A homicide unit from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department is investigating that incident.
On Feb. 25, a 1-year-old nearly drowned in the 9000 block of Muleshoe Street.Capt.
Barrett Baker, a spokesman for the Tucson Fire Department, said the latest incident involved a 2-year-old girl. Baker said the child was found in a swimming pool at a home in the 8000 block of East Kenyon Drive.
