Jacqueline Elliott's daughter nearly drowned in the backyard pool after falling in while toddlers played outside. Her five-year-old son spotted her underwater and alerted his mother, who pulled her out after about 10 to 30 seconds submerged. A table had blocked Elliott's view.
Questions this video answers
Two and a half years old.
Five years old (in kindergarten).
Yes — the speaker mentions a newborn baby.
An estimated 10–30 seconds.
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One day, I realized that I didn't have time. When my kids were little, my son was in kindergarten, and my daughter was two and a half. My youngest was a newborn baby. And my son and my daughter were walking around in the back in the backyard. We had a big, massive backyard, and we had a pool. And my kids were trained, perfectly trained. We've walked hundreds of times. And I was looking. I was watching them like a hawk. And there's a blind spot when I was looking through that window that I couldn't see because there was a table right there. My son runs in and he tells me, mom, Sophia fell in the pool. And I dropped my daughter, and I get her on the floor, and I run. My daughter's floating in the pool. And I jump in with my heels and everything, and I get my daughter out. She could have been in for 10 seconds, 30 seconds. I got her out. If my daughter would have died that day, we wouldn't be here today. My son was five years old. He was five years old. Any other little kid would have looked at his sister and been like, God told my son, go get your mom. He reacted. He came and he got me, and I got my daughter and my daughter.