A 2-year-old El Mirage boy drowned in a backyard swimming pool that was not protected by a fence, fire officials said.
The family was giving the boy CPR when paramedics from the fire department arrived Sunday morning.
First responders rushed the boy to a local hospital, where he died.
It’s not clear how long the child had been floating in the pool before he was discovered.
The boy’s name has not yet been released.
Authorities in Mesa located the body of an 11-year-old boy with special needs who has been missing from the area of Ray and Power roads since Saturday morning.
Mesa police spokesman Lt. Wessing said the boy – Caruel J. Udal, also known as C.J., who has Down syndrome – was last seen just before 9 a.m. as he went to walk his dog near the Arizona Canal in the area south of the SanTan freeway along Power Road.
Family members said that they heard their dog barking loudly at around 9 a.m. from the area of the canal just behind their residential property.
Wessing said the boy’s dog was found in the canal, but there was no sign of the child.
A search effort by officers from Mesa, Gilbert and the sheriff’s office was conducted.
Shortly after 1 p.m. a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office dive team located Udal’s body in the canal close to where his dog was found.
Police said it appears that Udal and his dog were able to access the canal through an opening in the fencing surrounding their property.
The family sent CBS 5 News the following statement late Saturday afternoon.
“We are heartbroken at the loss of our most amazing and talented son, C.J. Udall. His life ended too abruptly but we know that he has returned to his Heavenly Father and is with his grandpa and namesake Carvel Jackson.
“We ask those moved with compassion at our loss to consider making a donation to a fund that has been set up to honor the memory of C.J. The fund will benefit the organizations that our son loved and that profoundly touched his life.
“Donations may be made to the C.J. Udall Memorial Fund at any Wells Fargo Bank Branch.”
Phoenix firefighters say a toddler is going to be OK after nearly drowning in a backyard swimming pool.
Capt. Ruben Saavedra says the 19-month-old boy’s mother found him floating in the pool around 10 a.m. Sunday at their home near 35th Avenue and Ocotillo Road.
Saavedra says she immediately administered CPR and the boy began to cry and vomit.
Firefighters took the boy to a hospital and no significant injuries were found.
The mother told firefighters that she believes the child slipped outside through a doggie door and a latch on the pool fence may have been opened.
Water safety incidents in Phoenix dropped each of the past two years, thanks in part to a concerted effort to educate the community. But a toddler drowned in a backyard pool last week, kick starting the awareness effort once again.
Phoenix firefighters, volunteers and city leaders hit a northeast Phoenix neighborhood Tuesday morning handing out information about drowning prevention.
A 3-year-old boy drowned in a backyard swimming pool Sunday near 64th Street and Camelback Road. The pool did not have a fence and the child, who was not breathing and did not have a pulse when firefighters arrived, was in the water for more than 10 minutes, according to Phoenix Fire Department officials.
Newer homes are required to have barriers around pools. But there is not a requirement in older neighborhoods such as the one where the child drowned Sunday.
It is important for residents to have awareness about how to prevent drownings, said Kelly Lieberman, Phoenix Fire Department spokesman.
Lieberman was among the group that handed out water safety information as part of Tuesday’s W.A.V.E. walk — water, awareness, vigilance, education.
The group reached 565 homes in less than an hour.
Sunday’s incident was the first water-related child fatality this year, after two adult deaths resulted from eight water-related incidents, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.
The total water-related incidents in Phoenix dropped from a five-year high of 86 in 2011 to 69 in 2012 and to 32 last year, according Phoenix Fire Department statistics. Water-related deaths, however, rose from 17 in 2012 to 20 a year ago.
The last Ahwatukee drowning was in August 2012 in a backyard swimming pool.
Swimming pool incidents were by far the top cause of drowning deaths the last year five years, according to the same statistics, followed by bathtubs.
Supervision is always the best preventative, officials say, but teaching a child to swim is valuable as well. Swim lessons are available at the Ahwatukee Community Swim and Tennis Center, the Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA and the city’s Pecos Pool, among other places.
For a list of water safety tips, visit the Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona’s website, preventdrownings.org.
A 1½-year-old boy was alert and crying after he was pulled from a pool by his father early Friday morning.
The boy’s father said he found his son floating in the pool at a residence in the area of 42nd Street and Shea Boulevard about 7:45 a.m., said Phoenix fire Capt. Ruben Saavedra.
A 1-year-old boy was alert and crying after he was pulled from a pool by his father early Friday morning.
The boy’s father said he found his son floating in the pool at a residence in the area of 42nd Street and Shea Boulevard about 7:45 a.m., said Phoenix fire Capt. Ruben Saavedra.
He pulled the child from the pool and ran with him to a neighbor’s house for assistance with CPR, Saavedra said.
The father told firefighters the child was in a walker and that he briefly stepped away before finding his son still in the walker and in the pool, Saavedra said.
The pool had a security fence, but the father said the latching device might have failed, Saavedra said.
The child was crying when firefighters arrived, and was taken to a nearby emergency room for evaluation, Saavedra said.
On Thursday, a 2-year-old boy died at a Phoenix hospital after he was found in a pool in Anthem.
No other information was immediately available.
PHOENIX – A two-year-old boy has been taken to the hospital after he was found floating in a pool near 7th Street and Union Hills Drive in north Phoenix Thursday.
Phoenix boy, 2, found submerged in pool, transported to hospital
PHOENIX – A two-year-old boy has been taken to the hospital after he was found floating in a pool near 7th Street and Union Hills Drive in north Phoenix Thursday.
An adult female found the submerged boy and began CPR, according to Phoenix Fire Capt. Tony Mure. The child responded but did have labored breathing.
Phoenix Fire paramedics evaluated the boy and transported him to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Mure said.
No further information is available at this time.
A 3-year-old boy has died after he was found by family members in a pool Sunday morning, police say.
Capt. Jonathan Jacobs, spokesman for the Phoenix Fire Department, said family members found the boy in the pool Sunday morning and immediately called 911.
A 911 operator talked the family through providing CPR until an emergency rescue team arrived, said Jacobs.
A Scottsdale rescue team was closest to the 64th Street and Camelback Road residence and responded within four minutes, he said.
The child was transported to Phoenix Children’s Hospital in critical condition, according to fire officials.
Sgt. Trent Crump, spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department, confirmed the child has died.
Jacobs said the boy’s family was in town visiting relatives. He also said there was not a fence around the pool.
“Drowning incidents are preventable. They are non-biased. It doesn’t matter about your education level, how much money you make, ethnicity or what side of town you live in. This can happen to anyone,” he said.
Jacobs said this is the city’s first drowning of a child under the age of five this year.
Fire crews are reminding parents that children under five are the most susceptible to drowning.
LAS VEGAS – Authorities are resuming their search for two missing Las Vegas men a day after the body of a third man who was with them was found in Lake Mead.
National Park Service spokeswoman Christie Vanover says officials are conducting a search on land, sea and in the air Saturday.
Searchers plan to go through 7 miles of land on both sides of the shore.
Authorities say all three men, who were on a multi-day boating trip, were reported missing late Thursday by a family member who said they hadn’t called in for the night.
Their capsized boat was discovered around 11:30 a.m. Friday in the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam.
Vanover says the body of one of the men, whose identity hasn’t been released, was discovered a half-mile away.
