Two off-duty firefighters sprang into action to rescue a five-year-old boy who fell into a pool at a resort in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, deputies said.<\/p>\n
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies on Sunday afternoon received reports of a possible drowning at the Plunge Resort<\/p>\n
Deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue then arrived at the resort, where they learned that two off-duty firefighters, one from Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, as well as two off-duty nurses, provided medical care to the boy.<\/p>\n
BSO said that the boy was in the pool for a long period of time and didn’t have a pulse, but the off-duty BSRF firefighter performed CPR on him, and he regained a pulse.<\/p>\n
The boy was then taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
NBC6 spoke to a man at the resort who said the boy was playing when he slipped and fell in the pool.<\/p>\n
“I saw a boy in the water, who was unresponsive,” said the man. “Paramedics were there right away, and they pulled the boy out.”<\/p>\n
Video captured the chaotic moments after witnesses said the child was pulled from the water.<\/p>\n
First responders were seen carrying the young boy out of the pool before rushing him into a waiting ambulance.<\/p>\n
Witness Marquc Fernando said the situation quickly turned terrifying.<\/p>\n
“I saw the kid in very bad shape; he was breathing but barely, and they were doing the CPR,” he said.<\/p>\n
Fernando described the emotional scene as family members watched first responders trying to save the child.<\/p>\n
“I was scared too, and I was trying to help the kid, but I tried to get the father of the kid to calm down,” he said.<\/p>\n
Officials said the boy has since woken up and was talking with his doctor and his family.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s incident comes as Florida faced a record-breaking number of child drownings in 2025.<\/p>\n
Last week, a family was left grieving after a 6-year-old boy drowned in a Southwest Miami-Dade canal that was a block away from his home<\/p>\n
County officials across South Florida are making sure resources are available to help better educate communities on water safety<\/p>\n
Broward County released tips for National Water Safety Month.<\/p>\n
Teach children water safety and swimming skills as early as possible.<\/p>\n
Appoint a “Designated watcher” to monitor children during social gatherings at or near pools.<\/p>\n
Maintain constant visual contact with children in a pool or pool area<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Miami-Dade County, leaders are expanding the zero-drowning Miami-Dade Initiative, which is a program that provides free swim lessons, transportation, summer camp water safety programs, and education for families across the county with the goal of preventing more tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two off-duty firefighters sprang into action to rescue a five-year-old boy who fell into a pool at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,8229],"class_list":["post-289497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-lauderdale-by-the-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}