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Just three weeks after a child nearly drowned at a South Carolina water park, another child was also rescued. Rescuers were called to Otter Creek Waterpark earlier this month after a two-year-old girl was found floating in the pool. The child, who was at the pool with a caregiver and a group of other children, was briefly left alone and the girl ran off to play in the shallow end of the pool with other kids. She went underwater and…

Eight-year-old Jesus Lara noticed a toddler in the water in his Plano apartment and assumed somebody trying to see how long they could go under water without breathing. But then he saw the bubbles stop rising and could immediately tell the toddler was not breathing. Although there were adults around the pool, none were in the water; a party was going on. He took a deep breath, went under water, retrieved him and yelled for his father. The toddler’s skin…

A five-year-old Houston boy drowned after falling from an inflatable float yesterday in the same area in which three others drown just nine months earlier. The boy, whose name has not yet been released, was under the water for about five minutes, reports said. Reports varied as to whether or not the child had fallen off while others paddled it, or whether it had overturned and he was lost then. But once family members went back into the water to…

A man was rescued from drowning in a hotel swimming pool recently, but swift action and EMS response saved the man. The accident, which occurred at the a Saturday just before 5 P.M. at the Best Value Inn and Suites in the 800 block of East Kingsbury St. in Seguin, was The 27-year old man was seen floating in the hotel’s pool and emergency crews were called. Before they arrived however, the man was pulled from the water by hotel…

A cruise ship carrying more than 100 tourists collided with a cargo ship in a Danube River channel near the capital of Slovakia, reports say. No injuries were reported, but the German cargo ship, the Bavaria 52, carrying corn, was badly damaged in the collision early Wednesday south of Bratislava, with a massive effort to keep it from sinking. The 160 passengers were mostly German; the cruise ship, a Maltese vessel named Viktoria, was only slightly damaged. The passengers were…