Local News in Brief : 3-Year-Old Drowns in Backyard Pool
A3-year-old Granada Hills boy playing alone in his backyard drowned Wednesday afternoon after he fell into the swimming pool, authorities said.
The child, whose name was withheld, was pronounced dead at 4:45 p.m. at Granada Hills Community Hospital, a nurse in the emergency room said.
Paramedics were called to the 17400 block of Minnehaha Street at 2:53 p.m. by the boy’s mother, who found her son not breathing in the pool, a Los Angeles City Fire Department spokesman said.
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