On Friday, twin 4-year-old boys were pulled unconscious from a backyard pool at Porter Ranch and taken to hospital, where one died and the other was left in critical condition.
Paramedics responded to the 10000 block of Des Moines Avenue, just east of Tampa Avenue north of Devonshire Street, around 10:35 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
“We found a pair of four-year-old male twins in a backyard swimming pool, tragically unresponsive,” said Capt. Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Firefighters said they arrived to find adults in the home, including at least one neighbor.
Dispatches had talked about CPR procedures on children before paramedics arrived.
Within minutes, the twins were transported to a nearby regional pediatric trauma center.
You have to be very careful especially with children when they are near water.
“Tragically, one of these children was pronounced dead in hospital. The other remains in critical condition,” Scott said.
“There is no indication that there is anything beyond the tragedy that has happened here,” LAPD captain Kelly Muniz added.
Fire officials tell us they are wholeheartedly with the families, noting warmer weather is coming, and that means parents need to be extra vigilant.
They stressed that if children are in the pool, it is crucial to always keep them one hundred percent.
“Put up barriers around pools and make sure the people watching them know how to swim and do CPR,” he said.