2023-08-26 12:47:00
A 5-year-old boy drowned in the swimming pool at his home in East Moriches, Long Island (NY).
According to the police of suffolk countyWendy Hammil found her son Mason unconscious in the pool water at their Woodcrest Drive home shortly following 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The mother herself performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) the boy until first aid arrived and attempts to get him back to breathing continued. He was rushed to Peconic Bay Medical Center and then to Stony Brooklyn University Hospital in critical condition.
He was pronounced dead the next day. It was not immediately clear if anyone had been watching the boy while he was in the pool or if he entered the water unauthorized, he said. NBC News.
Several fatal cases of adult and child drowning have been reported this summer in New York and New Jersey. Last week a 9-year-old autistic boy drowned following disappearing from the Ikea store in Brooklyn (NYC). Days before, a teenager drowned when he jumped from the popular Fawn’s Leap waterfall in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Drowning tragedies spike during the summer, so the authorities recommend special caution, even to experienced swimmers because sometimes the victims are rescuers: In early August a 42-year-old father drowned in a New Jersey canal following saving his three children.
At the end of July, two teenagers drowned on NYC beaches, during the heat wave that hit the city. Earlier that month, a 13-year-old boy who was miraculously rescued alive from the Prospect Park lake in Brooklyn (NYC) died following spending three weeks seriously hospitalized.
In June an FDNY firefighter died while trying to save his daughter caught in a rip current off the Jersey shore.
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