Visitor Pulls Toddler Out of Mission Fountain
A 22-month-old boy was in critical condition Friday after being rescued from a fountain at Mission San Juan Capistrano and flown by helicopter from one hospital to another.
Soren David Baird became separated from his parents and grandparents, all visitors from Spokane, Wash., Sheriff’s Lt. Robert Rivas said.
Forest (and Joy Baird were searching for their son at 10:30 a.m. when they noticed a crowd of people peering into the fountain and rushed over, Rivas said. David Cameron of Irvine jumped into the two-foot-deep fountain and pulled the child out, police said. An unidentified woman, who police believe was an off-duty nurse, began administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Paramedics transported the boy to Mission Community Hospital in Mission Viejo. He was later flown by helicopter to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana. Officials said they did not know what prompted a doctor’s decision to transfer the boy.
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