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A nanny in Syosset, Long Island died after jumping into a backyard pool when her 3-year-old charge was struggling in the water. Nassau police spokesman Det. Sgt. Anthony Repalone said the boy had been wearing a life vest, but "It's possible that the 3-year-old child removed his jacket and got into the pool."
The boy's mother heard the screams from the house and ran out, able to pull her son from the water but yelled for help with the nanny. WCBS 2 reports the first volunteer firefighter-EMT arrived to find "the mother sitting inside on a couch holding her son," who was blue. He and another firefighter performed CPR on the boy, who started to breathe and then went to the pool, to get the nanny out, with the help of a police officer and neighbor. The nanny, who was in her 60s, was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The boy was in critical but stable condition at a local hospital. This comes the day after a 2-year-old drowned in her family's Central Islip home's pool and the state adopted pool alarm requirements.
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Do people in Long Island know how to swim? All these pools and a bunch of duck pond swimmers. Don't have a pool if you can't swim.
Hey, Einstein, the nanny doesn't own the pool. How do you know the mother didn't know how to swim? Toddlers don't know how to swim, so you're blaming them? Maybe you'd like to talk to your legislator and have that pool alarm law amended to ban pool ownership by parents who have small children. Have some respect for someone who lost her life trying to help, you dolt.
I think the real questions is why don't who own pools don't know how to do CPR ... if the child has brain damage it's the mother's fault for not starting it herself immediately.
To #3 I'd take it a step further and say that every parent should know CPR and basic first aid. God bless the nanny who sacrificed her life so that a child might live.
I'll take a step even further and say everyone breathing should know basic CPR and first aid. Indeed, the nanny is a saint for sacrificing her own life to save the child. I always wonder about these adult pool drownings, though. Even if you don't know how to swim, doesn't everyone know how to dog paddle or keep themselves afloat enough to get 3 feet to the side of the pool?
I'll take a step even further and say everyone breathing should know basic CPR and first aid. Indeed, the nanny is a saint for sacrificing her own life to save the child. I always wonder about these adult pool drownings, though. Even if you don't know how to swim, doesn't everyone know how to dog paddle or keep themselves afloat enough to get 3 feet to the side of the pool?
You're assuming the nanny died trying to get out. Maybe she died trying to get to the kid. If you can't swim, dog paddling while trying to drag someone to safety would be extremely difficult. Besides, we don't know what really killed her. For all we know, she could swim but could have had a heart attack since she was elderly. Ever see Shelley Winters in the original "Poseidon Adventure"? We'll just have to wait for details from the autopsy, if they're ever released to the press and public.
I'll take a step even further and say every breathing creature -- human or no -- should know basic and advanced CPR. Especially the blessed nannies who old or no, knowing how to swim or no, have it within their capacity to be like Shelley Winters in the Poseidon Adventure (the original, mind you).
We'll just have to wait for details, remaining at least 3 feet from the side of the pool.
Amen to all of the above who do so the young may live.
Columbia College (and the CU engineering school) require that you take a swim test and pass, or at least take a semester of swimming lessons in order to graduate. From what I was told, someone long ago donated money to the school with this stipulation -- the idea being that an educated gentleman should know how to swim.
At one point in the early 80's a bunch of geeks tried to overturn this requirement, but thankfully it still stands. (Or should I say floats?!?!) I'm always amazed to learn that an adult can't swim. It's a basic skill that should be taught at a very young age.
According to the article, the nanny was 47...not in her 60s. She was in cardiac arrest when they pulled her out of the pool.
Which article says she was 47? The Newsday article says she was 49. The WCBS article says, "The woman, in her 60s..."
Whatever her age, that nanny was precious and will be terribly missed. A true heroine, if ever there was one.
According to the news on Telemundo she was in her 40s, an immigrant (South American, judging by the accents of her family members; Argentine, maybe? I'm guessing.) Apparently she had worked for the family for years and was pulled out of the pool a few minutes after the child.
Fucking nannies - can't read, can't swim, can't leave the country.