{"id":798130,"date":"2026-07-13T01:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798130\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:23:19","slug":"child-drowns-in-southeast-calgary-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798130\/","title":{"rendered":"Child drowns in southeast Calgary pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A child drowned in a pond Sunday afternoon, Emergency Health Services (EHS) and the Calgary Fire Department (CFD) say.<\/p>\n<p>CFD batallion Chief Bruce Barrs said crews were dispatched just after 1 p.m. for reports of a person submerged in water along Legacy Main Street S.E.<\/p>\n<p>When crews arrived at the pond, a girl was found in critical condition after being pulled out of the water by a family member.<\/p>\n<p>Crews initiated CPR until EMS arrived, at which point firefighters transferred patient care to paramedics, but continued to assist with resuscitation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the patient was declared deceased at the scene,&#8221; Barrs said.<\/p>\n<p>He said sonar equipment and a surface scan confirmed that nobody else had been submerged.<\/p>\n<p>STARS air ambulance had also been called to the scene, but the helicopter did not transport a patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-798130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}