Children's Safety Zone

A north Phoenix family is counting their blessings Sunday after their 2-year-old boy nearly drowned.

It happened in the backyard pool at the family’s home near Central Avenue and Thunderbird Road on Saturday.

PatriciaWright says she was cleaning up around the pool when she took her eyesoff her young son Aiden for only a moment, looked back and he wasgone. She found him face down in the pool.

“It was the worst moment of my life,” Wright said.

Shequickly scooped Aiden out of the water and started CPR even though shehas no formal training. “I just knew I had to breathe for him,” sheexplained.

Wright says Aiden was breathing by the timeparamedics arrived, but he wasn’t out of the woods yet. His bodytemperature had dropped to 96 degrees and doctors induced a coma forthe boys protection.

Just 24 hours later the boy seems good as new.

“We have been blessed,” said Gregg Wright, the boy’s father. “I don’t know what we would do without him.”

The Wright family says they will get a pool fence or another protective barrier immediately.

Authorities have identified three men who were found dead after they disappeared while boating at a lake northeast of Phoenix.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says the men were camping with family and friends when they left to go boating on the Verde River at 1 a.m. Sunday.

They have been identified as 32-year-old Francisco Antonio Cruz, 25-year-old Jose Alberto Castaneda, and 21-year-old Jose Luis Castaneda. Authorities say all were from Phoenix.

Authorities say the none of the men were wearing life jackets and it’s believed their boat tipped over and they couldn’t survive in the cold, murky water.

“We were swimming arms length apart and you know the difference between a rock and a victim” said Deputy Jeff Hanson who was the first diver to find a body.

The river waters are cold and murky. Visibility for divers was only a few inches.

Family members notified authorities after realizing later Sunday morning that the men hadn’t returned.

Rescue crews from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office looked for the men throughout Sunday before halting the search at darkness. The search resumed Monday morning and included six rescue divers.

The men’s bodies were found Monday in Horseshoe Lake. Deputies say the men did not have flotation devices and were wearing heavy clothing which would end up weighing them down. The bodies were found together in about 10 feet of water.

A 2-year-old boy was pulled from a north Phoenix pool after he was found floating at the top Saturday morning, authorities said.

The boy was found breathing but unconscious shortly before 10 a.m., according to Phoenix Fire Department Capt. Tony Mure. It was unclear how long he had been in the pool. He was transported to Phoenix Children’s Hospital for treatment, Mure said.

The incident happened near Thunderbird Road and Central Avenue in Phoenix.

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A 1-year-old boy is in critical condition after nearly drowning in a backyard pool Wednesday.

It happened before 8 a.m. at a home near Greenway Road and 41st Avenue in Phoenix.

Captain Scott McDonald with the Phoenix Fire Department said the toddler slipped out a back door and into the pool while his father was sleeping.

When the boy’s father woke up, he found his son floating in the water.

“There’s a chance the child was unaccounted for, for 30 minutes,” McDonald said.

According to Phoenix Fire officials, the little boy is on life support at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center.

McDonald said the pool’s cold water may have helped the child.

Firefighters are using this time to remind parents to keep an eye on their young children and fence in their pools.

“We’ve got to ask the residents of Phoenix, and the whole Valley, to watch your kids around water,” McDonald said. “Supervision is number one.”