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Just three weeks after a child nearly drowned at a South Carolina water park, another child was also rescued. Rescuers were called to Otter Creek Waterpark earlier this month after a two-year-old girl was found floating in the pool. The child, who was at the pool with a caregiver and a group of other children, was briefly left alone and the girl ran off to play in the shallow end of the pool with other kids. She went underwater and…

Eight-year-old Jesus Lara noticed a toddler in the water in his Plano apartment and assumed somebody trying to see how long they could go under water without breathing. But then he saw the bubbles stop rising and could immediately tell the toddler was not breathing. Although there were adults around the pool, none were in the water; a party was going on. He took a deep breath, went under water, retrieved him and yelled for his father. The toddler’s skin…

A man was rescued from drowning in a hotel swimming pool recently, but swift action and EMS response saved the man. The accident, which occurred at the a Saturday just before 5 P.M. at the Best Value Inn and Suites in the 800 block of East Kingsbury St. in Seguin, was The 27-year old man was seen floating in the hotel’s pool and emergency crews were called. Before they arrived however, the man was pulled from the water by hotel…

The mother of a woman killed in the September 11th attacks was hospitalized recently from a near-drowning in a swimming pool in Orange County California’s Rancho Santa Margarita, reports say. The woman was the mother of Lisa Frost, who was aboard one of the planes that slammed into the World Trade Center towers. The woman, Melanie Frost, was swimming at her ex-husband’s house when she apparently got into trouble after he left to run an errand. The ex-husband, Thomas Frost,…

A Glendale, Arizona family and students at a local high school are grieving the loss of 16-year-old Jesus “Jesse” Prado, who drowned at the school pool last month.