Five-year-old rescued from icy pond
Published: January 1, 2005
A Colorado man rescued a 5-year-old boy, blue and unconscious, from an ice-covered pond near a hospital where he was then given life-saving treatment.
The boy and two girls were playing, unsupervised, next to the retention pond Friday when the boy fell through ice on the pond, the Denver Post said Saturday.
Dermet Carroll heard the girls screaming and sprinted from a nearby apartment, took off his shoes and got onto the ice, which immediately broke and dumped him chest-deep into near-freezing water, said Laurie Chavez, who was walking nearby with her daughter.
“The guy who jumped in moved the chunks of ice and got the baby out,” said Chavez, who called authorities on a cell phone. “He wasn’t breathing when they took him out of the water. He was already blue.”
Carroll performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the child before he was rushed to a hospital several hundred yards away, where he was stabilized and then transported to Children’s Hospital in Denver. His condition was not available.
Police estimated there was a half-hour window from the time the boy was last seen at his home near the pond and his near-drowning.
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