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Gulf Coast News @gulfcoastnewsnow.bsky.social
Jul 11, 03:25 AM

A one-year-old boy died after deputies responded to a reported drowning at a rental home in North Naples. More: https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/drown-infant-baby-boy-death-collier-florida/71873208 

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"the baby drowned, the baby drowned. Can you please hurry up? Please, ma'am, please, I'm breathing, please. Those are the terrifying moments a family calls 911 after a one-year-old baby boy drowns in a pool at this Naples vacation home. I looked outside, and I saw at least eight police cars in the next block. Ina Cachani lives around the corner from 96th Avenue and 6th Street North in Naples, where Collier County deputies rushed to Tuesday night just before 11 and found the baby not breathing. I'm doing the compressions on him right now. CPR efforts were unsuccessful. My heart does go out to the family. Drowning is the leading cause of death for children one to four, and parents like Paul DeMello know that pain firsthand. In 2010, DeMello lost his twins to drowning. Now he's turned that loss into just-against-children drowning, a nonprofit raising water safety awareness at homes and public pools. The idea if there was a safety fence at my twin boy's grandparents' house, they would be alive today. As we saw flowers laying by the pool towels where the drowning happened, neighbors like Cachani share the same message, wanting stricter rules for pools in rental homes. Put a safety fence around the pool. Covering the Gulf Coast tonight in North Naples, Edward Franco, Gulf Coast News."

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Gulf Coast News @gulfcoastnewsnow.bsky.social · Jul 9, 10:42 AM

A one-year-old boy died after deputies responded to a reported drowning at a rental home in North Naples. More: https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/drown-infant-baby-boy-death-collier-florida/71873208