Elderly Woman Pulled From West-End Swimming Pool
Posted July 27, 2010 12:08 pm.
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An 87-year-old woman was rushed to hospital Tuesday morning after she was pulled from a west-end swimming pool without vital signs.
The woman was visiting her daughter at a home on Baby Point Road, near Jane and Bloor streets when she went into the backyard.
Around 11:30am, her daughter spotted her mother – a non-swimmer – floating in the pool’s deep end and began screaming for help. Two construction workers next door jumped the fence, pulled the victim from the water and performed CPR until emergency crews arrived and took over.
“If they hadn’t have been there who knows what would have happened?” said next-door neighbour Maggie Evans.
“It sort of brings it all home. You don’t really think about it and all of a sudden it’s your next-door neighbour. We have a pool too. It makes you think twice.”
Paramedics reestablished the woman’s heartbeat on the way to St. Joseph’s Health Centre, where she remains in critical condition.
Police are investigating what caused the woman to fall into the pool.
