A child remains in a stable condition after a near-drowning in a backyard pool in Blacktown today.
About 1.40pm (Sunday 24 October 2021), emergency services were called to a home on Charles Street, Blacktown, following reports a two-year-old boy had been pulled from a backyard pool unresponsive and unconscious.
NSW Ambulance paramedics assisted the child at the scene, before he was taken to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a stable condition.
Officers attached to Riverstone Police Area Command attended and established a crime scene.
Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the incident continue; however, the incident is not being treated as suspicious.
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