Children's Safety Zone

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  (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.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, AZ – Authorities are investigating the apparent drowning of a 16-year-old Boy Scout from Utah at Supai Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park.

The Coconino County Sheriff’s Department says an investigation shows Kreg Harrison, Jr. of St. George, Utah and three other scouts were swimming in the pool of water immediately below Mooney Falls Wednesday and were attempting to swim near to or underneath the waterfall.

Investigators described the pool under the falls as about 5 feet deep with a very strong undercurrent.

The boys reportedly saw Harrison struggle and go under the water, and when one of the boys tried to pull the victim above the water the undercurrent was so strong it almost pulled the second boy under as well.

Eventually, one of the other swimmers was able to pull Harrison to shore and a number of people, including a medical doctor with the group, tried to save Harrison by administering CPR.

Two of the scouts trapped behind the falls were rescued by adult leaders and boy scouts by forming a human chain.

Harrison’s body was flown by a Department of Public Safety to the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Officials said the group had planned on staying in the canyon until Friday, but in light of the events were being flown out of the canyon by helicopter today.

MARICOPA, AZ – A father says he thought his relatives were watching his 3-year-old daughter when he left the Maricopa neighborhood pool; meanwhile, the relatives thought he had taken the child with him.

No one noticed when the girl jumped into the pool and started to sink.

Despite being in the water for up to six minutes, the girl is perfectly fine, her father Justo Valenzuela said.

“God was with her,” said Valenzuela.

His daughter Ariza barely remembers what happened on Saturday .

“If I wouldn’t have gone to get [dinner], this wouldn’t have happened,” Valenzuela told ABC15.

Valenzuela said there must have been miscommunication among the family, something he said will never happen again.

“I could have lost one of the most precious things God has given me,” he said.

Ariza’s aunt began CPR and revived the child just as paramedics were arriving.

Valenzuela said his daughter is on an antibiotic to help combat any bacteria in her lungs, but other than that, she’s healthy.

“She’s our miracle,” Ariza’s aunt said.

PHOENIX – A 1-year-old boy has been rushed to a Valley hospital after he was pulled from a backyard pool in north Phoenix.

Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Hugh Chase said the boy was taken to Banner Thunderbird Hospital in extremely critical condition.

There was no immediate word on how long he had been in the water. The family was new to the area and there was no fence or barrier around the pool.

The little boy’s 12-year-old brother found him floating in the pool and called his mother. The boy’s mother pulled the toddler from the water and began CPR.

Officials say hospital personnel were able to establish a heartbeat on the boy, but he is still listed in extremely critical condition.