What???? It sounds like the child must of been in the kid's pool which is very small. The lifeguards I notice just sit there while they should be walking around that pool, especially with all the little kids.

[Portion removed; speculation on details of this incident are not appropriate.] My kids went to Swim and Tennis Camp there this year....I'm not so sure I would sign them up again.

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The boy was "in distress" for only a few seconds. While the article does not make it clear, it seems likely that he was conscious and breathing when he was pulled from the pool, which would indicate a good response from the lifeguards and Swim Operator. Unfortunately, once the Fire District Public Information Officer gets involved, the narrative shifts to the rapid response of the fire district, when it sounds like they took a boy who was probably very scared but ok, to the hospital. The district said that "he nearly drowned"; I wonder what the criteria is for that statement?

It would be relevant to know who was supervising the child (a camp, parent, or babysitter) and which pool the incident occurred in. Those pools can get very crowded, making it difficult to keep track of all the children in them.

I swim there a few times a week and am under the impression that all the lifeguards and counselors are extremely vigilant. There's no horsing around in the water and running is not tolerated either. It seems as if the kids in the big pool (Instructional Pool) are all equipped with those long skinny floating things. It's too bad that the Almanac chose the expression "near drowning" before determining exactly what had happened. Perhaps "child in distress" would have been more accurate.

It was the lifeguards/swim instructor that immediately pulled the boy out. The wording of this article is a bit odd saying the workers there were "able to contact his father" as if he was nowhere around... the child certainly did not come to the pool by himself so some adult responsible for him had to have been nearby! It's kid of weird to focus on the engine's response time rather than the general circumstances of the incident.

To the first commenter who said it "sounds like it must have been in the kid's pool", please do not speculate. It most certainly could have been a swimming lesson, or open swim. Actually the pool for small children requires a parent or other adult right there constantly and all those adults makes it even less likely to be the case. Please don't disparage the guards online like that without knowing the details.