Lifeguard comes to boy’s rescue
Published: June 27, 2007
A lifeguard is credited with saving a boy’s life at a city pool on Tuesday.
The boy was swimming in the area directly under a water slide at Mae Simmons Pool about 2 p.m. Tuesday when he began to drown, according to witnesses.
“He took a mouth full of the water that was coming down the slide,” said Ivette Eads, outdoor recreation supervisor at Mae Simmons Pool on East 24th Street.
A female lifeguard who was on duty at the time jumped into the pool and pulled out the boy. She then performed CPR on him and cleared his airway.
“He was pretty full of water,” Eads said.
The boy, who witnesses say was about 6- or 7-years-old, never lost consciousness and was taken to Covenant Children’s Hospital.
Eads said lifeguards had told the boy several times to move away from the area under the slide before Tuesday’s incident.
The lifeguard credited with saving the boy did not wish to be interviewed immediately following Tuesday’s near drowning.
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