A 3-year-old girl drown this morning while swimming in an apartment pool with her father and sister, authorities say.
The girl, whose identity hasn’t been released, was found by two women who were swimming at the pool at Belmar Villa Apartments, 759 S. Reed Court in Lakewood, said Micki Trost, spokeswoman for West Metro Fire Rescue.
“If you look away for one moment a kid can slip away from you,” Trost said.
The father and sister did not see the girl go under the water at about 11:30 a.m. in the pool that ranges from 3 to 8 feet deep, she said.
The two women spotted the girl and dove into the rectangular pool and pulled her out.
“One of the neighbors said there was loud splashing and screaming for help,” Trost said.
The women who pulled the girl out of the water performed CPR on the child at the direction of a dispatcher.
When Lakewood police arrived they took over CPR and then paramedics also tried to revive the girl unsuccessfully, Trost said.
Lakewood police officers are investigating the incident.
The incident was the second this week involving a child in the metro area.
Two-year old Moises Bahakal drowned in an apartment pond in front of the Twin Lake Towers complex in Denver on Tuesday. At the time he was playing on the bank of the pond with at least one other child. The boy’s mother pulled him from the water, but he could not be revived.
Staff writer Kirk Mitchell can be reached at 303-820-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com.
