SAN ANTONIO -Two young girls were taken to the hospital after a reported drowning incident at a pool where a family party was underway, police said.<\/p>\n
Just before 7 p.m. on Friday, police were called to the scene of a reported drowning at an apartment complex near the corner of Theis Drive and S WW White Road.<\/p>\n
Sgt. Lee Holderby said officers with the E B ship responded after getting \u201ca call for a drowning out here,\u201d though the initial information \u201cwas static.\u201d He said the call initially indicated \u201cseven-year-old girls were were drowned or were drowning,\u201d but once officers arrived, they learned the children were 3 and 5 years old.<\/p>\n
Holderby said that when officers reached the scene, \u201cThe little girls were already outside of the pool.\u201d He said family members were trying to help them when police arrived.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe family was attempting to do CPR on them, so the officers in the location right away picked them up, took them up, took them to the EMS ambulance,\u201d Holderby said.<\/p>\n
Holderby said the girls were transported to Children\u2019s Hospital and that \u201cas of right now, they are both in this condition,\u201d later adding that \u201cthey’re both in good condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether the children were unattended, Holderby said, \u201cNo, they were not unattended.\u201d He said \u201cit was a little party that was going on here,\u201d and \u201cthere was a lot of people here.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the incident remains under investigation. \u201cWell, we’re still investigating, so we can’t really give out all the details just yet,\u201d Holderby said. \u201cIt was just an accident that occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holderby said adults at the pool noticed the girls and acted quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe adults right away, they noticed, and they jumped in and took the children out and then attempted to do the CPR,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Holderby said he did not know whether the girls could swim, adding, \u201cWe don’t know as of right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
He urged families to stay vigilant around water. \u201cAlways, always keep an eye on your children. Always, always, because it can happen,\u201d Holderby said. \u201cThat happened in a split second.\u201d He also suggested using \u201cthe little swimmer things, the little floaties\u201d for children who do not know how to swim.<\/p>\n
Holderby said detectives were being contacted and would either respond to the scene or witnesses would be taken to headquarters as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO -Two young girls were taken to the hospital after a reported drowning incident at a pool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-394233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}