Blog Posts in 2012

Glenview Park District Pools Closed due to Drowning

Last month a 4-year-old-boy was pulled from the Roosevelt Outdoor Pool by a lifeguard. According to witnesses the boy’s body was “lifeless and limp.” The boy died at a local hospital a short time after being pulled from the water. The boy was visiting the pool with 19 other children through a day care center camp. District officials have banned the summer camp groups from three pools following the ...

Six-Year-Old Boy Drowns at Country Club

Minneapolis – A six-year-old boy died in a swimming pool drowning earlier this month at a Hopkins Country Club where he was attending a birthday party, according to police. Sgt. Michael Glassberg, of the Hopkins police said the boy drowned around 6:24 p.m. at the Oak Ridge Country Club. An eyewitness observed the boy struggling and pulled him from the pool. The country club employees performed CPR ...

Boy Drowns at Hotel Pool

Reece Mitchell, 4, of Midland, Texas, was found at the bottom of the MCM Grandé Hotel FunDome pool in Odessa recently while surrounded by numerous other guests and accompanied by siblings and adult aunt, reports say. One of the boy's siblings noticed him at the bottom of the pool and pulled him out, reports say. CPR was performed on Reece and Emergency Services was summoned. The youngster was ...

Six-Year-Old Child Dies in Pool Accident

A southern Indiana Holiday Inn hotel was the site of a drowning that ultimately took the life of six-year-old Ron-Deja Lynn Stevenson recently, reports say. The young girl, who actually died the next day at Kosair Children's Hospital, was at the Holiday Inn Lakeview in Clarksville for a party she attended with family members. As it ended, a group was headed back to their hotel room when they ...