The arrival of summer and even more of the heat wave are synonymous with swimming in the pools. A moment of relaxation that turned tragic in the Tarn. the Free lunch reports that a 20-month-old child was found in critical condition after drowning in a swimming pool in Castres. The emergency services intervened very quickly to take care of the little girl in cardiorespiratory arrest. Unfortunately, the child did not survive this accident.
The facts took place on July 10 in the evening around 10:30 p.m. In a house in Castres, the Tarn firefighters and the SMUR were called for a drowning. A little girl, who apparently escaped the supervision of an adult, drowned. The Dispatch provides details about the circumstances of the tragedy. This Sunday, the family was celebrating a birthday when one of the 18-year-old members, the little girl’s big brother, discovered the floating and inert body of his little sister on the surface of the above-ground inflatable pool.
His family performed heart massage while alerting the emergency services. When they arrived, the child was in respiratory arrest, the first steps of resuscitation were then given to him. Transported to the Purpan hospital in Toulouse between life and death, she died.
This tragic event occurs at the time of a great heat wave in France. The same day, “a man in his thirties suffered a fatal illness in the swimming pool of a private residence in the Saint-Simon district,” in Toulouse, recalls 20 minutes. The Public Health France site indicates that “a total of 1,983 drownings occurred in France between June 1 and August 31, 2021, including 1,119 documented accidental drownings, of which 250 were followed by death (22%)”.