A 2-year-old boy nearly drowned Feb. 14 after falling into a swimming pool at a vacation rental property in the 200 block of South Bay Boulevard in Anna Maria, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report.
The child’s mother told police she lost track of the kid while upstairs attending to a cable service worker. She said that when she realized the child was missing, she returned to the pool area and found him underwater.
She rescued the child from the pool and began CPR while family members at the property, called 911.
MCSO deputies and emergency medical services responded around 3:51 p.m. and Bayflite, a helicopter emergency service, transported the child via to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.
The child was not named.
An MCSO deputy investigated the property and found an alarm attached to a door leading to the pool area, designed to emit a sound to warn people the door had been opened, but it was determined it lacked batteries.
The MCSO report stated, “The child’s condition is improving and the prognosis is positive. There is no further investigation warranted.”