Boy Rescued From Pool Dies at the Hospital
A 19-month-old boy who was rescued from a backyard swimming pool earlier this week died Wednesday afternoon at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Nathan Powell, the only child of a Chino couple, died at 4:18 p.m. Wednesday.
“Their sole source of comfort,” said hospital spokesman Andrea Bogdan, “was that they chose to donate their son’s major organs so that another child could live.”
Authorities say the boy and his parents were visiting his grandparents in Northridge when he wandered out of the house in the 18,000 block of Mayall Street.
Authorities said the boy may have been chasing a basketball when he fell in. The pool was fenced off to outsiders, but a police detective said the boy probably walked out a side door.
Los Angeles police Officer Patrick Cronnin arrived at the house, saw the boy in the pool and dived in.
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