A 3-year-old boy pulled from a swimming pool on the northwest side on Saturday has died.
Firefighters were dispatched at about 2:30 p.m. to a home in a Dove Mountain neighborhood in Marana, Capt. Adam Goldberg, spokesman for the Northwest Fire District, said in a news release.
A 20-month-old girl is in extremely critical condition after being found face-down in a Mesa pool Sunday evening, authorities said.
The mother was caring for the girl’s two young siblings inside the home near Guadalupe and Dobson roads when the girl wandered away and got through the pool gate, according to Ken Hall, a spokesman for the Mesa Fire Department.
MESA, AZ – A toddler has been transported to the hospital after she was found floating in a pool Saturday, officials said.
Ken Hall, public information officer for Mesa Fire, said the toddler was not breathing and CPR was being performed before being transported to a local children’s hospital.
via Mesa Fire: Toddler taken to hospital in critical condition; found floating in pool – ABC15 Arizona.
A woman has died after the car she was driving was swept away by heavy floods in Tucson.
Tucson Fire Department spokesman Barrett Baker says rescue units responded to a residential neighborhood near 22nd Street and Kolb Road around 9:30 a.m. Monday. When they arrived, the car was submerged in the water and could not be reached.
The car was then swept away and traveled about two blocks before it became trapped against a bridge in a wash that had flooded over onto a major street.
The water was about 10 to 15 feet high, Baker said.
Firefighters have retrieved the woman’s body but have not been able to pull the car out of the wash.
Heavy rains continue in Phoenix and Tucson, flooding numerous streets and leaving several drivers stranded.
One Surprise family is extra lucky after their son was saved from fast waters near a storm drain at an elementary school Monday.
Brandon Espie with Surprise Fire Department says the young boy was caught in the storm drain located by Kingswood Elementary School near Bell and Reems roads.
The boy’s father was able to pull his son out of a potentially deadly situation and the boy was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Espie says not all details of the incident are available, but it appears that the boy simply got caught in the current of the storm drain near a green belt area.
Many Valley residents are spending the day playing in flooded parks and open spaces, but it’s best to avoid these areas, no matter how tempting they look.
via Boy saved from storm drain near Surprise elementary school
A 2-year-old boy has drowned at a Tucson apartment complex.
Fire Capt. Barrett Baker says an adult found the child in a hot tub in a gated pool area Monday evening and that another adult started to perform CPR.
Fire personnel then arrived and took over but efforts to resuscitate the child were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Baker says the drowning is the first for the year for the Tucson Fire Department.
A 4-year-old girl has been taken to the hospital after a near-drowning incident in Avondale.
Avondale Fire Department spokesman Steve Ellsworth said a bystander gave the child CPR before paramedics arrived at the apartment community near El Mirage and Indian School roads.
Ellsworth said the girl was estimated to have been under water for about three minutes.
He said she was conscious, alert and crying when taken by ambulance to Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Ellsworth did not know where the incident happened within the community.
via Bystander performs CPR on 4-year-old girl after near-drowning.
Authorities say a body pulled from a Gilbert canal has been identified as missing teenager.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office on Thursday identified the body as that of Maxwell Flancer.
His mother reported him missing Tuesday night after Flancer never showed up at his father’s home, located about a mile from the canal.
The teen’s mother found his hat floating in the canal Wednesday afternoon and called authorities.
A county sheriff’s dive team used an underwater robot with a camera and sonar to locate the body.
Gilbert police say the cause of death hasn’t been determined yet and the case remains under investigation.
via Body found in Gilbert canal identified as missing teen Matthew Flancer.
A man fell into a swimming pool in Chandler and drowned Saturday evening, fire rescue personnel said.
It happened just before 6 p.m. in the 8000 block of W. Musket Way.
When first responders got there, they found residents performing CPR on the unconscious man.
The man, whose name hasn’t yet been released, was rushed to the hospital, where he later died.
A Goodyear mother is in jail on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after a drowning call involving her 21-month-old daughter.
Phoeteama Janiece Neal, 28, was booked into jail and being held on $1 million bond, said Lisa Kutis, of the Goodyear Police Department.
Officers said a drowning at a home in the 4200 block of Pebble Creek Parkway was called in about 1:35 p.m. on Monday, Kutis said.
According to the police report, the 911 dispatcher asked Neal what her emergency was and she said, “I just drowned my baby.”
“I just drowned her,” Neal told 911, according to the police report. “She’s dead.”
Police said the child, who was fully clothed, was taken by medical helicopter to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, where she remained in extremely critical condition Tuesday morning, Kutis said.
The infant is on life support in pediatric ICU. Medical personnel estimate she has a 1 percent survival rate, according to the police report.
Neal was identified by her Air Force identification and was arrested.
Detectives said Neal learned earlier Monday morning that her child was to be relinquished to the baby’s father at the end of the month, according to the report.
The child’s biological father told police that Neal is scheduled to be deployed to Turkey on Aug. 31 and was trying to take the child with her, but a Maricopa County judge ruled that Neal could not take the girl to Turkey and that the father would get custody.
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