Articles labeled: toddler drowning

A 2-year-old who wandered away from his family during a picnic at their church was found later floating in a nearby pool.

According to the Coroner’s Office, the toddler was attending a picnic at the First Christian Church in Perry Township with his family when he wandered off.

The toddler was then found unresponsive in a pool about 100 yards away.

Southwest Ambulance responded to the scene and preformed CPR.

The baby boy was then transported to Monongahela Valley Hospital were he was pronounced dead.

Hailey Cronk, a Florida middle schooler is our hero today. She acted swiftly and decisively when she heard her neighbors toddler struggling, jumping into their pool to pull her to safety. The 12 year old gives this advice to parents — teach children how to swim at a very young age.

Smart young lady, a true inspiration MT thinks.

“I didn’t think it was a big deal, but everyone’s going ‘Oh my gosh you’re a hero!’,” says Hailey.

She was recently at a get-together with her parents at a home on Burnaby Lane. While the adults were inside, Hailey was asked to watch children at play. Hailey was sitting by the pool, working on her laptop, when all of a sudden she heard 3-year-old Jaden Ruddy struggling.

“I barely heard anything, but then I saw her little arms going up in the water and I was like, ‘oh my gosh,’ so I jumped in and got her.”

She says the toddler somehow unhooked the pool screen latch and was trying to walk on a blanket which was covering the water.

A 21-month-old has drowned and two men are missing in Lewis County, Washington, where the Green and Cedar rivers are swelling.

Nine other people were rescued Saturday after river accidents in King County — and police say some are lucky to be alive.

Sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said a 45-year-old Seattle man was with three others Saturday when he went underwater in his kayak and failed to reappear on the surface downstream from Kanasket Palmer State Park.

Because of the steep cliffs on both sides of the river, the group could not reach a place where they could get out and call authorities for more than an hour. The search was suspended Sunday evening until the Green River water level decreased.

An Indiana toddler that had been reported missing has been found drowned in his grandparent’s swimming pool. He was at the bottom of the pool, which is probably why he was not noticed right away.

Caidyn Bugby was playing outside at his grandparent’s Anderson home Sunday as they did yard work.

Madison County Sheriff’s Department Maj. Brian Bell says the grandparents called police to report the boy missing. Officers found the boy at the bottom of the family’s in-ground swimming pool.

Emergency personnel spent about 40 minutes trying to resuscitate the boy.