Jul 4, 2008 7:37 am US/Eastern
L.I. Nanny Dies In Pool Rescue Of 3-Year-Old Boy
Woman In 60s Pronounced Dead At Area Hospital; Little Boy Revived, Admitted And In Stable Condition
SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) ―
A nanny died Thursday as she tried to rescue a 3-year-old boy from a family's swimming pool, police said.
The woman, in her 60s, was watching three children by the side of the pool outside a private home when the boy took off his life vest and jumped into the water, Nassau County police said.
The nanny went into the pool to rescue the boy. The children's mother, hearing the commotion and seeing the nanny and the boy in the pool from a second-story window, ran outside and pulled the boy out. Police, volunteer firefighters and a neighbor pulled the nanny out, police said.
The nanny was pronounced dead at a hospital. The boy was revived and was listed in stable condition at a children's hospital.
Roy Brouillard, who was the first volunteer firefighter-emergency medical technician to arrive at the home, said he encountered the mother sitting inside on a couch holding her son.
"The child was blue, was not breathing and was in cardiac arrest," Brouillard recalled hours later.
Brouillard and two other firefighters, Doug Share and assistant chief Robert Kaplan, said they tried to resuscitate the boy with CPR.
"The color of the child was changing from blue to a whitish pink color," Brouillard said. "It showed us that our resuscitative efforts were working."
The crew also tried delivering electric shocks to the nanny's body to restart her heart.
"Unfortunately, we didn't have the same results," Share said.
The firefighters from Syosset, a hamlet with a population of about 20,000, said they rarely receive calls for drowning victims, maybe one every two to three years.
"To hear there were two (victims), you're immediately like, 'Oh, my God,"' Kaplan said. "The feeling when the child responded to our treatments is almost indescribable. It overwhelms you."
(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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