Children's Safety Zone

MESA, AZ – Mesa police say a 3-year-old girl died Sunday after falling into a backyard pool.

Police spokesman Tony Landato said the girl was found at the bottom of the pool during a BBQ at a home near Southern and Alma School.

Landato said the girl was visiting the home with her parents. According to police, the 3-year-old was left unsupervised by adults when she fell into the pool.

CPR was performed on the girl before rescue crews arrived. The child was taken to a local hospital where she later died.

Landato said the investigation is ongoing, but criminal charges are unlikely.

Authorities said this is the second child to drown in two days. A 5-year-old boy died after slipping into a backyard pool during a party in Buckeye Saturday afternoon.

MARANA, AZ – A woman who was swept away in a flooded southern Arizona wash during heavy monsoon rains was found dead Friday, authorities said.

Pima County sheriff’s officials said the body of 52-year-old Angelina Carrasco was recovered from her car, which was found upside down and partially submerged in a flooded wash north of Tucson.

Multiple law enforcement and fire agencies had searched by air and ground for hours for Carrasco, whose husband was injured in the incident.

Sheriff’s spokesman Tom Peine said deputies got a call from a motorist stuck in a wash early Friday. The man, who was able to get out, said he heard another man yelling for help and saying his legs were broken.

Rescuers in the community of Marana found that man on a sand bank surrounded by water around 6 a.m. He told them he had been there for hours but his wife had been swept away. The man in his 60s was taken to a hospital for treatment of a fractured pelvis, according to authorities.

Three other vehicles were found in a wash nearby, but the occupants were safe, Tucson TV station KVOA reported.

Meanwhile, several drivers had to be pulled from their cars by fire crews in the Phoenix suburbs of Goodyear, Mesa and Apache Junction.

Goodyear fire crews used a raft to rescue a man who was stranded atop his utility company truck in a flooded wash Friday evening.

The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings Friday morning for parts of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, after up to 3 inches of rain fell in some areas.

A stretch of the U.S. 60 freeway in the area was inundated, with drivers having to cross flowing water and traffic backed up for more than a mile.

GOODYEAR, AZ – Fire officials say a 2-year-old boy who was found floating in a swimming pool earlier this week in Goodyear has died.

The drowning incident happened around 4 p.m. Tuesday at a home near Van Buren Street and Sarival Avenue.

Goodyear fire spokesman Russ Braden said the boy died Thursday morning.

A parent of the child found him in the pool, Goodyear police Lt. Scott Benson said.

The boy was not breathing on his own and was initially listed in critical condition when he was airlifted to a hospital.

Authorities said the drowning happened at his grandmother’s house after other children had just gotten home from school.

Everyone lost track of the boy, authorities said.

There was a pool fence, but it’s unclear if it was open or closed at the time.

They said they believe the child was under water for at least five minutes.

SAN TAN VALLEY, AZ – Authorities say a 1-year-old girl has died after she was found in a swimming pool Tuesday afternoon in San Tan Valley.

Colin Williams with the Rural/Metro Fire Department said the girl was in the swimming pool for an unknown amount of time at a home near Skyline Drive and Gary Road.

Authorities said the backdoor to the house was left open and the child went in the backyard and fell into the pool.
 
The grandmother came out a short time later and discovered her granddaughter still in the pool. The grandmother jumped into the pool, pulled the child out and performed CPR on her until emergency crews arrived.

The child was transported to a local hospital and then transported by air ambulance to Cardon Children’s Hospital in Mesa where she later died.

The name of the child hasn’t been released yet.