Video shows teen, boy saving toddler from near-drowning
TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- A teenager and a 7-year-old boy helped save a toddler who nearly drowned in a pool at a Florida apartment complex.
CBS Orlando affiliate WKMG-TV reports Titusville Police say surveillance video from Timber Trace Apartments on Friday shows an unsupervised 3-year-old girl walk into the community pool and try to swim before struggling to stay afloat. Police say the girl was underwater for nearly two minutes.
"You can see in the pool people are around this young girl and she goes under and they don't even notice," Amy Matthews with the Titusville Police Department told WKMG-TV. "It goes to show you how quick something like this can happen."
The toddler's 7-year-old cousin saw the girl floating lifeless in the water and got her out of the pool.
Police say that's when 18-year-old Breanna Moseley jumped in, using CPR training that she learned in school to save the toddler's life. Moseley was at the pool with her family and didn't know the toddler.
"[The toddler's] mom came back, and she hugged me and cried. [She] told me how I was her guardian angel, and it made me realize, 'Wow I actually did a pretty incredible thing,'" Moseley told WKMG-TV.
The child was taken to the hospital. Her family says she has been released.
The Department of Children and Families was called to investigate.