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
Feb 272014
Feb 272014
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.
Feb 232014
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.
Feb 222014
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.
Feb 032014
Authorities have identified an Arizona Department of Transportation employee who was found dead in a canal last week in Chandler .Joseph Favazzo, spokesman for the Chandler Police Department, said 57-year-old Ronald Griffin was found dead Friday, Jan. 31, in a runoff canal by colleagues near Hamilton Street and Willis Road.Police said the worker’s death is not considered to be suspicious. However, authorities are waiting for the official cause of death from the Medical Examiner’s Officer as Griffin was alone at the time.Employees discovered Griffin’s body around 3 p.m. Friday. He was cleaning out an area of a runoff canal near the San Tan Freeway.The investigation is on-going and no other details were released.
via Police release identity of ADOT worker found dead in Chandler runoff canal – ABC15 Arizona.
Feb 032014
Authorities have identified an Arizona Department of Transportation employee who was found dead in a canal last week in Chandler .
Joseph Favazzo, spokesman for the Chandler Police Department, said 57-year-old Ronald Griffin was found dead Friday, Jan. 31, in a runoff canal by colleagues near Hamilton Street and Willis Road.
Police said the worker’s death is not considered to be suspicious. However, authorities are waiting for the official cause of death from the Medical Examiner’s Officer as Griffin was alone at the time.
Employees discovered Griffin’s body around 3 p.m. Friday. He was cleaning out an area of a runoff canal near the San Tan Freeway.
The investigation is on-going and no other details were released.
Jan 302014
A 2-year-old girl was released from the hospital Monday after nearly drowning in a septic tank on Sunday, according to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office.
“It’s just overwhelming that she’s perfect and I get to hold her and be with her more,” said the child’s mother Emily Howard. “I’m amazed and I love her and I’m never letting her out of my sight again, ever.”
It was reported on the 49300 block of West Papago Road, near the city of Maricopa.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Tim Gaffney said the tank had a plastic cover but it apparently collapsed when the child stepped on it.
“She was right in front of me when she fell, but I dropped to my knees and tried to grab her,” said Howard. “The water was too deep to reach where she was in the bottom, and I started screaming ‘she fell, she fell, somebody please get her out.'”
She was pulled from the tank and given CPR.
Jeff Vaughn thought he would be spending the day selling some of his crafts in Maricopa. He had no idea he would end up helping rescue a child from such a terrifying situation.
“All of the sudden someone said a little girl fell down the well,” said Vaughn.
Vaughn, who is a grandfather, said he ran toward the child’s scream and dove head first into the narrow opening and grabbed the little girl out of the tank.
At the same time, another man held onto Vaughn’s ankles and together they pulled the child out of the septic tank that was filled with raw sewage.
The child wasn’t breathing, according to Vaughn. It was then that a woman ran over and began giving the child CPR.
“After doing CPR for awhile, she started crying and that was the best thing to hear,” said Vaughn.
Paramedics transported her to Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa.
Her condition is unknown, but Gaffney said she was crying on the way to the hospital.
There is a concern about infection because of the exposure to raw sewage.
Jan 302014
Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials say a 1-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after being pulled from a backyard pool in Queen Creek Friday.
Officials say the incident happened around 6:00 p.m. near Power and Queen Creek roads.
MCSO Sgt. Chris Hegstrom said the toddler’s mom left her 13-year-old to babysit while she went to pick up her oldest child from an event.
Hegstrom said while she was gone, the 1-year-old got out the back door and into the swimming pool.
The little girl’s 4-year-old sibling saw the girl in the pool and called the 13-year-old for help.
Hegstrom said the 13-year-old pulled the child out of the pool and called her mother.
Deputies said when the kids’ mother arrived home, they performed CPR on the child.
Hegstrom said when deputies arrived, the girl had a pulse and was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
There is no word at this time if the home has a pool fence or not.
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Nov 272013
A 13-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after falling into a backyard pool in Tempe Wednesday afternoon.Tempe police spokesman Mike Pooley said the incident happened around 2:15 p.m. near Guadalupe and Kyrene Roads.
via PD: 10-year-old pulls toddler from backyard pool in Tempe.
Nov 152013
An infant has been transported to Phoenix Children’s Hospital after being found in a swimming pool Saturday afternoon.
Phoenix Fire Captain Tony Mure said a mother found her 22-month-old son in their swimming pool Saturday afternoon and discovered the child was not breathing.
The mom called 911 and began applying CPR until paramedics arrived on scene. The child was taken to Phoenix Children’s Hospital while CPR was still in progress.
We will update as information becomes available.