Fire-Rescue: Boy, 4, "breathing and conscious" after CPR

Larry Hobbs, The Brunswick News, Ga.
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Aug. 7—Glynn County Fire-Rescue medics responded Saturday afternoon to a possible drowning at the public pool at Neptune Park on St. Simons Island, where they arrived to find a 4-year-old boy conscious and breathing after receiving CPR from a lifeguard and possibly a bystander, fire-rescue division chief Scott Cook said.

The child was conscious and breathing when transported by county fire-rescue ambulance to Southeast Georgia Health System's Brunswick hospital, Cook said.

Fire-rescue received a call at 4:52 p.m. of a possible drowning at the Neptune Park, 550 Beachview Drive, Cook said. Fire-rescue medics were told the child was found beneath the water and pulled from the pool.

"Apparently, a lifeguard and possibly a bystander assisted with CPR immediately," Cook said. "We were called to a near drowning, that the child went under water. When our people arrived, he was breathing and conscious."

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