PHOENIX – Authorities say a woman was found dead in a pool in Ahwatukee Tuesday morning.
Fire crews were called to a home near Chandler Boulevard and 32nd Street around 6 a.m.
Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Jacobs said the 46-year-old woman was found in the pool and pronounced deceased.
Police say it appears to be an accidental drowning and alcohol may have been a factor.
CAVE CREEK, AZ – A 3-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Tuesday after falling into a backyard pool.
Fire officials said the child fell into the pool in a gated community near Cave Creek Road and the Carefree Highway.
It is unclear how the child ended up in the water. Firefighters said it appears the boy was under water for at least two minutes
Officials said the boy was breathing and crying on his way to the hospital.
TUCSON (KGUN9 TV) – The Pima County Sheriff’s Department investigating a drowning on the northwest side now believe the victim, a 56-year old woman, may have taken her own life.
PCSO tells 9 On Your Side deputies responded to a home at Orange Grove and Camino de la Tierra at about 5:30 this morning. Detectives say a family members called 911 to report a drowning.
When deputies arrived, they say they found the woman’s body in a swimming pool.
Deputies also tell 9 On Your Side, shortly after, they found a suicide note inside of the house. Deputies did not find evidence of foul play.
PCSO will stay at the scene until they complete their investigation.
MARICOPA, AZ – A man’s body found in a rural irrigation canal west of the town of Maricopa last week has been identified.
Pinal County Sheriff’s officials announced Tuesday the body is that of 43-year-old Todd Kibler of Maricopa.
They say an employee with the Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation District discovered the body floating in the water near a canal gate Thursday.
Kibler’s family says he was last seen on Aug. 5 at a friend’s home in Maricopa.
They say he would often go to the irrigation canal to swim.
Kibler’s vehicle was discovered upstream about a quarter mile from where his body was found.
Authorities say Kibler likely went into the water on Sunday evening and drowned.
They say alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor, but the death is being investigated.
MESA, AZ – Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that there is one drowning victim on the Salt River.
The incident occurred at the Mud Cliffs at Salt River around 3 p.m. Saturday.
Witnesses say that the victim 24-year-old John George of Chandler, was tubing on the river and was separated from his group.
He let go of his raft and attempted to swim up stream, but witnesses believe he went underneath the water as he got too tired to swim.
Deputies responding to the scene performed life saving measures until medical aid arrived.
He was pronounced dead on the scene.
According to Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the man may have been underwater for up to four minutes before being rescued.
PHOENIX, AZ – A 10-month-old little girl is fighting for her life after investigators say she was found unconscious in a bathtub at her family’s home in the west Valley.
A spokesperson for the Phoenix Fire Department tells ABC15 the girl’s mother turned on the water in the tub to give her daughter and two-year-old son a bath.
Investigators say for reasons that remain unclear, the mother left her children unattended.
While she was away, firefighters claim her son put the stopper in causing the tub to begin filling with water.
“We can’t blame anybody, accidents happen,” said neighbor Christina Torres. “It’s sad to know. I can’t even talk, I’m still in shock over everything that’s happened.”
Investigators say the mother returned to the tub to find her daughter submerged in water.
Torres says the girl’s mom ran outside with her daughter looking for someone to help.
“She wanted somebody who knew how to do CPR,” said Torres. “She knew her child needed CPR and she didn’t know how to do it.”
Torres called 911 while another neighbor performed CPR.
Paramedics rushed the girl to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Her condition is unknown.
“She didn’t look good, not at all,” said Torres.
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) “ﾔ Authorities say the body of an apparent drowning victim has been recovered from Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border.
Officials with the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area say 26-year-old Colby Roman was reported missing May 25.
The Scottsdale, Ariz., resident and a friend decided to go for a swim while their houseboat drifted.
Witnesses say high winds pushed the boat away from the swimmers and Roman tried to help his friend.
The remaining three people on the boat were able to save that man, but they say Roman slipped under the water and couldn’t be located.
After a 26-day search, Roman’s body was located Wednesday at a depth of more than 260 feet by a remote unit equipped with sonar and video.
The National Park Service is investigating the death.
Dive teams recovered the body of a 21-year-old Turkish woman Thursday night who drowned along with her friend Wednesday in Lake Powell.
At about 6:30 p.m., dive teams found Betul Eryildirim, 21, in 30 feet of water, close to where the other woman was found a day prior.
Kane County sheriff’s Sgt. Alan Alldredge said a boater discovered the body of Merve Tokel, also 21, floating face down in the lake on the Utah-Arizona border about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday. Witnesses told investigators that Tokel had last been seen with Eryildirim swimming near a beach in Crappie Cove, not far from Bullfrog Marina.
“Both just walked down to the beach to swim for a couple of hours,” Alldredge said.
Deputies, divers and a helicopter had looked for Eryildirim into Wednesday evening before suspending the search, which resumed Thursday morning and continued into the afternoon. The Lake Powell National Park Service dive team and a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter assisted the Sheriff’s Office.
Alldredge said the victims’ bodies have been sent to the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office for further investigation. Foul play was not suspected. Since there were no witnesses, police can only assume they were accidental drownings.
Alldredge said the two Turkish women were employed for the summer by Aramark, a national food service company, and working in the Bullfrog area at a concession stand at the park. The women were good friends, with their birth dates only eight days apart, according to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.
TUCSON – A 10-month old girl is in critical condition after nearly drowning in a bathtub this afternoon – the woman who was watching her has been charged with Child Abuse.
Tucson Fire and Tucson Police responded to an apartment in the 3600 block of north Campbell Avenue at about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoon after a 10-month old girl was found unconscious and not breathing in a bathtub full of water. TFD personnel immediately performed CPR and rushed the child to a local hospital.
The child remains in critical condition in the hospital.
Upon investigation, detectives from TPD’s Dependent Child Unit learned that 27-year-old Zada Davis was caring for the baby, as well as her 7-year-old child, and another 8-month old baby.
Davis put the baby in the bathtub sometime between 2 p.m, and 2:30 p.m., leaving the water running with toys in the tub, TPD officials state. She then began doing other things around the house, leaving the child alone in the bathroom. After about 10 minutes, Davis returned and found the bathtub overflowing, with the child floating in the water.
Davis pulled the baby out of the tub and called 911, and a neighbor performed CPR until Tucson Fire personnel arrived. The other children in the house were not involved in the incident.
As a result of the investigation, Davis was arrested and charged with one count of felony Child Abuse and booked into Pima County Jail.
GILBERT, AZ – A five-year-old boy died Sunday after being pulled from a community pool in Gilbert .
The accident happened Saturday at a neighborhood pool near Baseline and Val Vista.
Gilbert police tell ABC15, Clayden Hammond was found face down in the pool. The boy died at the hospital.
“He was still as a statue,” said Bella Padilla who tried to save the boy’s life.
That was was one of the first signs that caught the attention of seven-year-old Bella.
She said the five-year-old was under water for three or four minutes.
“I was like dad, he’s scaring me. I just kept coming closer and closer. My dad went over there and nudged him,” said Bella.
“He was hovering just above the surface of the pool, face first, lifeless. I didn’t get a response from him so I knew he wasn’t with us,” said Bella’s father Louis Padilla.
It was at that point Padilla, a decorated war hero, knew he had to move quickly.
“I brought him to the side of the pool and right away we started doing CPR on him. We never got a heartbeat, he had no response. He had a lot of water in him,” said Louis.
According to the Gilbert police department, Hammond was visiting from New Mexico. He came in town to visit his grandparents.
Witnesses tell ABC15 his grandparents were in the pool when the incident happened.
