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  Woman pulls son from pool, then drowns web posted August 29, 2008 8:05 pm  MERRIWETHER –
Edgefield County EMS,
Sheriff’s Deputies, and North Augusta Police Officers rushed to a home
on the 600 block of Whitewood Way in the Oak Creek subdivision with a
report of a woman drowning in a backyard pool just before 5 pm. When
the first officer’s arrived on the scene they found the woman face down
in the near empty pool.North Augusta Officers jumped in the pool and were able to get the woman out and NAPD Officers, Edgefield County EMS workers, and Merriwether First Responders began giving the woman CPR and working feverishly to save the her life. The woman was still unresponsive as she was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to University Hospital. According to information available at the scene, the couple’s fourth grade son got in the pool, which is still under construction, and could not get out. He was found by the mother as he was holding on to the rope and buoys stretched across the pool. The mother entered the pool and was able to get the child out, but the bottom of the pool, being covered in algae, made the surface so slippery the woman was unable to get out herself. The boy ran to the next-door neighbor who called 911 and by the time the neighbor could get to the pool, the woman was found unresponsive in the shallow water. It is unknown how the woman became submerged in the water, said to no more than two or three feet deep. It is also unknown how long the woman was in the water before she was discovered. The young boy repeatedly told rescue workers, “My momma saved my life”. A pool light at the deep end of the pool was dangling down by its wiring a few feet above the water level. The woman continues to be treated at University Hospital at press time and was said to be in critical condition. North Augusta Public Safety is investigating the incident. Though the Oak Creek subdivision is in Edgefield County, it was annexed into the City of North Augusta several years ago. ©
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