Children's Safety Zone

PEORIA, AZ – Firefighters from Peoria responded Thursday afternoon to a 12-month-old that had gotten through a broken pool fence and fell into the water.

Luckily a family member noticed the child was missing and quickly pulled the child to safety. The child was alert and awake when firefighters arrived and was transported in stable condition to the hospital.

Because the family had several children, and a broken fence, the firefighters decided to step in to make sure something like this didn’t happen again.

The crew of ladder 191, led by Captain Bob Burkland went to a local Home Depot and bought hardware to fix the pool fence. They also installed two alarms on the doors leading to the backyard.

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

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

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

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