Children's Safety Zone

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office dive team recovered the body of a teenager who drowned at Lake Pleasant Friday afternoon.

A spokesman with MCSO says the 15-year-old girl was trying to help her two younger siblings swim when witnesses say she went under the water and didn’t resurface.

Witness Jimmie Ogle told 3TV he heard someone screaming from the shore, pointing to the children who were struggling in the water. He said he jumped in a speed boat and raced out to help.

“I dove off the front of his boat, and I grabbed the two kids that were already going under,” Ogle said. “They looked at me straight in the face, they went underwater. I grabbed ahold of them; I took them to shore. They said, ‘My sister is still under there.'”

Ogle told 3TV he got back in the water to look for their sister, but it was too late.

“I’m devastated,” Ogle said. “I tried my best to save all of them. I don’t want to see a child die.”

The Sheriff’s Office says the teenager was not wearing a life jacket at the time.

MESA, Ariz. — A 40-year-old man drowned in the Salt River near Blue Point Bridge on Thursday, according to a spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputy lake patrol divers found Luis Alberto Gutierrez in 15 feet of water at 6:00 p.m., about two hours after responding to a drowning call.

He was found near the area where he was reported going under the water.

According to witnesses, the victim was swimming with another individual across the river, a distance of about 50 yards, when he went under.

A 4-year-old child is in critical condition after he’s found in an Avondale pool.

Police responded to a home near 107th Ave and Lower Buckeye Monday afternoon. The boy had not been seen for 3 to 5 minutes, and a 10-year-old relative ended up seeing him at the bottom of the pool.

She removed the boy from the pool, and the boy’s mother performed CPR.

It’s not clear how long he was underwater, but he was breathing and responsive when paramedics took him by ground to Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

At last check, the boy was in critical condition.

The investigation is ongoing.

A baby boy drowned in a bathtub at a home on the northwest side Saturday evening.

Oro Valley police officers the first to arrive, just after 5 p.m., at a home in the 9000 block of North Oracle Road between West Hardy Road and West Calle Concordia, and began performing CPR after the 12-month-old was found unresponsive in a bathtub, said Capt. Josh Hurguy, spokesman for the Golder Ranch Fire Department.

via Infant left in bathtub drowns in Oro Valley.

A 4-year-old girl nearly drowned in Oro Valley Saturday.

Battalion Chief Josh Hurguy with Golder Ranch Fire District says it happened at a home in the 11000 block of Gray Eagle, near Tangerine and La Canada.

Hurguy says a 4-year-old was in the care of her mother.

She was in the pool with a floatation device when she tipped over underwater and was unable to right herself.

A 12-year-old relative, who just completed CPR training, saw what happened and quickly turned the girl right side up and got her out of the water.

The little girl never lost consciousness or stopped breathing.

Golder Ranch Fire Paramedics transported her to UAMC for further evaluation.