A 2-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was pulled from a pool at a vacation home on Butler Beach in southern St. Johns County Tuesday.
Deputies said Liam Carson Lambert of Dayton, Ohio is in critical but stable condition after he was pulled from the pool in the 5400 block of 4th Street Tuesday night.
Deputies said four adults and six children under the age of 11 were staying at the vacation rental.
Adults were gathering the children from the pool area when Liam entered the water, deputies said.
Family members found the boy in the water and were able to get him out.
He was taken to Wolfson Children's Hospital by helicopter.
Detectives said there was nothing suspicious about the near drowning and it appears it was an accident.
Billy Hennesy said he just gotten home when the boy was found in the water.
"I heard a young child say 'He's drowned, he's drowned!'" Billy Hennesy said.
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“I bee-lined it to the fence and, like I said. I was either going over or through it," Bill Hennesy said. "But all the paramedics showed up… so I knew… I put two and two together. From what I heard from the pool tech, the baby was already at the bottom.”
"You step out that sliding glass door, take two small steps and you’re right down in the water there… there’s a deep end and shallow end. It’s over my head at one point," Diane Hennessy said.
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"I think I’m going to go take my grandson and get his lessons right away now because we have them at the beach and running in the backyard and you just don’t want that to happen ever."
SJSO says their investigation into this incident is ongoing.