UPDATE (11/25/09): KPSP Local 2 has learned that the year old boy who nearly drowned in a pool at a La Quinta home was transferred from an Indio hospital.
JFK Memorial Hospital tells KPSP that the boy was transferred to Loma Linda University Children's Hospital around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Loma Linda could not give an update on the child's condition Tuesday morning because of his age.
Stay with KPSP Local 2 as we learn more about this developing story.A year-old boy nearly drowned in a pool at a La Quinta home Tuesday, but was pulled out of the water and rushed to an Indio hospital, authorities said.
The child was unconscious and unresponsive when found floating in the backyard pool in the 51500 block of Avenida Vallejo around 2:15 p.m., authorities said.
A next door neighbor described what she heard to KPSP.
"I heard the girl scream 'oh my god, oh my god' and at first I thought maybe she got in the pool and thought it was really to cold," said Debra Chraskan. "Then I heard someone jump in the pool and she continued to scream oh my god, oh my god! So the first thing that came to my mind is that one of the children fell in the pool."
Emergency crews performed CPR on the baby, who had a pulse and was taken to John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, said Lt. Jason Huskey of the La Quinta Police Department.
