Children's Safety Zone

GLENDALE, AZ – A 1-year-old girl was flown to Phoenix Children’s Hospital in extremely critical condition after being pulled from a back yard pool in Glendale Friday evening.

Mike Young of the Glendale Fire Department said the call came from a residence near Bethany Home Road and 75th Avenue.

The girl was being watched with four other children by their grandmother at a home owned by the child’s aunt.

Fire officials say the girl’s 3-year-old brother opened the back door so the kids could get to the back yard.

There is a pool fence but it apparently doesn’t close all the way.

You could see from Air15 video that the pool is green and murky.

Fire officials say the girl was found face down in the pool for an unknown amount of time.

She was flown to the hospital and is expected to recover.

TUCSON – An angry mother is speaking out for the first time, after her 10 month old daughter drowned in her babysitter’s care.

Zada Davis told police she left Winter Azure in a bathtub unattended with the water running for about ten minutes.

The girl died six days later, becoming Pima County’s only child drowning this year.

Wednesday Davis pleaded not guilty to second degree murder.

Winter’s mother Kiari Holland sat in court and watched as Zada Davis pleaded not guilty to 2nd degree murder. A woman she thought she could trust.

Holland said she ran a background check and talked with friends who had also used the suspect as a sitter and thought that would be enough, but it wasn’t.

Holland said, “I figured it would go without saying for common sense, especially for a parent much less for anyone. You just don’t leave a child around water period.”

Its common sense that police said was missing for 10 minutes, leaving the little girl under water one minute, for every month she was alive.

It was a life cut way too short, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t leave her mark.

Talking about some of the things Winter liked Holland said, “For a ten month old she liked being thrown and hung upside down.” She also talked about how good of a baby she was. She said, “I still think to this day I don’t think she knew how to produce tears. She was just not a very good crying type of child.”

As for the suspect, the judge released her on her own recognizance, which is something Holland isn’t happy about. She said, “I’m a little irritated because almost anywhere else I’ve lived she’d be sitting in jail right now.”

But just because she’s out of jail doesn’t mean she’s off the hook by any means. If Davis is found guilty, she could face up to 25 years in prison for the 2nd degree murder charge alone.

A group of Queen Creek boys put their Boy Scout training to use when one of their own suffered a seizure in a family swimming pool and nearly drowned.

Just a few days after Warren McGregor, 12, of Troop 303, had finished brushing up on his cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills in preparation for teaching a group of younger scouts, the boys returned from a campout in the mountains and decided to go swimming in the McGregor’s pool. It was a Saturday like many others and the Scouts, aged 10 to 13, were all experienced swimmers.

As Warren crossed the pool , he noticed his friend, David Lee, 13, face down at the bottom of the pool. Warren dove down and turned David over.

“I noticed (David) was not moving, his eyes were staring right through me and his lips were a dark shade of blue,” Warren said. “The first thing I thought was that he was dead. I pulled him to the side of the pool and started doing CPR on him. I didn’t want to lose my friend.”

Several other Scouts helped Warren pull David out of the pool. Soon after Warren started to administer CPR to David, he started coughing up water and breathing, heavily at first. By then, the Queen Creek and Gilbert fire departments’ paramedics had arrived in response to the 911 call placed by Warren’s mother Kelly.

The paramedics took David to Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa, where it was determined he was fine, Elizabeth Lee, David’s mother, said.

At last week’s Town Council meeting, Queen Creek Mayor Gail Barney recognized Warren McGregor, and fellow Scouts Kyle “Chaz” Welch, Dylan Lambert and Jayden Meeks, who also helped with the rescue, as Queen Creek Heroes for their quick action in the April 21 incident.

David had suffered a seizure in the swimming pool, Elizabeth Lee said.

A person experiencing a seizure is unable to control his body, said Dr. Gary Smith, administrative medical director for the Queen Creek Fire Department.

Elizabeth Lee said David had his first seizure in February and underwent a battery of neurological tests afterward. The test results were normal.

“It looked like a one-time event … No one expected this,” Elizabeth Lee said.

The quick action of Warren and the other Scouts saved David’s life, Smith said. In a matter of seconds, David could have inhaled water and drowned.

“These boys are heroes in my mind,” Smith said.

Warren said he learned when faced with an emergency, “you don’t have time to look (the information) up – it’s instinct. I was lucky enough to have my Dad as a scoutmaster to train me.”

David said the event taught him to pay more attention to what he was learning in Scouts.

A year ago, the boys had all earned their First Aid Merit Badge, which included CPR, but only Warren had chosen to brush up on the skills to teach other Scouts. And Warren was the only boy to swim to the other end of the pool where David was found.

“A series of miracles were in place to save David,” Kelly said.

Warren’s father, Wade, said scouting is as relevant today as it has always been.

“Being prepared is the Scout motto,” he said.

“Scouting teaches boys to think for themselves and gives them the skills to understand what needs to be done.”

A 3-year-old boy was found at the bottom of the pool Friday, at the Embassy Suites located at 2630 E. Camelback.

He was pulled from the water, and the boy’s father and another individual administered CPR. Two hotel employees also helped.

The child started crying and breathing again on his own. Paramedics rushed him to a nearby hospital.

It’s not clear how long he was submerged or how he ended up in the pool. He is expected to be ok.

Rescuers were unable to resuscitate a woman who was found unconscious in her pool by her husband Thursday afternoon, according to the Tempe Police Department.

Police and firefighters responded to the home in the 1400 block of East Colt after receiving a call that the woman had drowned, Tempe police spokeswoman Molly Enright said.

Firefighters were unsuccessful in resuscitating the woman, according to Enright.

Detectives are investigating the incident, she added.