UPDATE 11/20/2015: Per the PICU Social Worker, the male juvenile is still in the PICU. He is intubated and on a breathing machine. His status has not changed. The female is doing well and will be transferred down to a regular room. – From Lt. Joe Gomez.
(KMJ) – November 19, 2015 – Two children are at Valley Children’s Hospital, reportedly breathing after being pulled from a swimming pool in Central Fresno.
Fresno Police got the call just before 11:30am. Thursday morning, that two children had drowned at 5800 East Ramona.
Fresno Police Lieutenant Joe Gomez says the kids were playing in a room at a relatives house.
The twins father went into the bathroom for a few minutes and it was during that time the twins somehow got out of the living room where they had been playing with toys.
The dad looked for them, but they had snuck out a sliding glass door covered by drapes.
“He pulls the drapes back – it was open – he looks around and he sees his twins, a girl and a boy, 2 and a half years old – he sees his daughter floating face up and cannot see the boy. The pool’s very murky, has not been used in a long time. very green and dives in and finds his son at the bottom of the pool and pulls him out. – Fresno Police Lieutenant Joe Gomez.
The father knew CPR and was applying it to his son when the ambulance arrived..
When asked where the father learned how to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation he said he learned that skill at Valley Children’s Hospital. He said his children were born at Valley Children’s Hospital and the hospital put him through a course on cardio pulmonary resuscitation.
Fresno Police Lieutenant Joe Gomez says it likely saved their lives – the father’s efforts resulted in both children being able to breathe again.
When Lt. Gomez left them at Valley Children’s he said the girl was screaming which he said is good.
The boy was in the intensive care unit.
