1 Boy Dies in Family Pool Tragedy but 2nd Is Saved : Death: 3-year-old succumbs in Anaheim accident, but a second child, 3, is rescued in Santa Ana and revived by CPR.

Despite frantic efforts by neighbors and relatives to revive a 3-year-old boy who had wandered into the family pool in Anaheim, the boy died about 45 minutes later, police said Tuesday.

Andrew Bahn of 5809 Paseo Ferrelo Drive was pronounced dead at Kaiser Permanente Hospital-Orange County at 7:43 p.m. Monday, after his mother had found him lying in the bottom of the swimming pool.

On Tuesday, another 3-year-old was found unconscious in a Santa Ana swimming pool by two of his relatives, who resuscitated him before paramedics arrived, police said.

Paramedics took Marvin Daniel Morgan of Hawthorne to St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, where he was in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Four children under age 6 have drowned this year in Orange County and 47 others have nearly died in swimming pools, sparking renewed appeals to pool owners to secure their pools.

Fire officials are advising all pool owners to make sure that their pools are fenced. However, they must also ensure that the fence closes and never prop it open, said Anaheim Fire Capt. John Ibbetson.

“Fix the fences and keep them closed because God help (you) if it doesn’t work; something like this stays with you the rest of your life,” Ibbetson said.

Details of the Anaheim accident were still sketchy Tuesday.

Ibbetson said it was not clear how the child wound up in the swimming pool, which neighbors said was surrounded by a fence. Nor was it known how long he had been in the pool before he was discovered. The mother, who is Korean, speaks little English.

“We really don’t know what happened or how that child got into the pool,” Ibbetson said.

Tina Hobson, a neighbor, said the mother’s screams reverberated along the quiet cul-de-sac in Anaheim Hills.

“The mother was screaming hysterically and for good reason--the boy was blue,” Hobson said. “My husband was the first to get there and give him CPR, and then another neighbor came and took over. The police and the paramedics came. They all tried.”

She described the boy as “a typical, active 3-year-old” and said he had been playing in her yard earlier in the afternoon.

Hobson said that the Bahns’ pool is surrounded by a fence and that the mother and a nanny kept a close eye on the boy.

“I just don’t know how this could have happened,” she said.

In Santa Ana, the Morgan boy was visiting cousins at their home on North Louise Street with his parents when he asked his father if he could go into the pool, family members said. Marvin Henry Morgan, 28, reminded his son to put on his plastic “water wings” before going into the pool, he said a few hours after the incident.

After a short time the boy’s father asked his cousin, Salvador Gamboa, “Where is Boo Boo?” the nickname for his son.

Gamboa, 43, said he turned toward the pool and saw the young boy lying motionless at the bottom of the deep end of the pool.

Gamboa said that he jumped into the pool and pulled the boy to the surface and that his wife, Carol, 36, began cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Before paramedics arrived, the boy began breathing, Salvador Gamboa said.

Carol Gamboa “brought him back. It’s a miracle,” said the boy’s father.

Health officials in June released a study showing that drownings were the leading cause of death for Orange County infants and toddlers last year. There have been 104 drownings and near-drownings this year, officials said.

In fact, the problem has become so severe that the Orange County Health Care Agency was awarded a study grant from the state Department of Health Services.

“We’re particularly targeting young children because that seems to be where a large part of the problem is,” said Dr. Hildy Meyers, an epidemiologist working on the study. “We’re trying to collect data and figure out a way to prevent it.”