Sister pulls her brother to safety from backyard pool (Abbotsbury)
Emergency services praised the girl who saved her young brother from drowning in a backyard pool while escaping from heatwave conditions at Abbotsbury, in Sydney's south-west, tonight.
Ambulance paramedics, police and the NRMA CareFlight trauma team rushed to the Province Street home shortly before 8 pm.
The NRMA CareFlight doctor said the 12-year-old girl spotted her four-year-old brother floating face-down in the pool and immediately dragged him to safety.
Applying the first aid lesson she had learned at school only last week, the girl turned her brother on his side into the recovery position.
He coughed and immediately started to breath.
The helicopter landed in a nearby park where police met the doctor and duty paramedic and drove them to the house where ambulance paramedics had started to treat the boy.
After stabilisation the boy was taken in a road ambulance, under continuing treatment by the doctor, to Westmead Children's Hospital for observation where he remained in a stable condition on arrival.
The boy's mother accompanied her son to the hospital.
The NRMA CareFlight doctor said the girl's swift action had prevented a possible tragedy while the family, from nearby Bonnyrigg, had been cooling off at a friend's home.
"She showed the life-saving value of learning first aid, and did really well," the CareFlight doctor said.
For further information please contact NRMA CareFlight director Ian Badham on 0418 245 748.
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