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California first responder saves 1-year-old son from drowning in pool: video
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A Southern California firefighter rescued his 1-year-old son from drowning in a pool on Tuesday, Ring video shows.
The Hemet Firefighters Association shared the footage on social media, asking parents to take note of how quickly children can drown. The boy in the video, Cole, is too young to know how to swim.
The association told Fox News Digital that the father is Zachary Petite, a fire engineer and paramedic at Hemet Fire Department. Cole is Petite’s youngest son.
The 40-second video shows the 1-year-old boy waddling around the pool and eventually jumping in. As soon as the boy gets in the water, Petite swiftly jumps on the ground and gets his son out, laying him on his back.
“This video is a sobering reminder that a child drowning can happen to anyone at any time in a matter of seconds,” the Hemet Firefighters Association said on Facebook. “Even though both parents took all proper precautions including a gate around the pool and an appropriate PFD [Personal Flotation Device], the boy still managed to get in the water.”
“Remember, children drown without a sound, please watch the video,” the association added.
The Hemet Firefighters Association commended Petite for saving his son.
“Even though young Cole Petite managed to find his way into the water without being noticed, Zack and [his wife] Jessica’s proactive approach to pool safety is the reason their son survived,” the organization told Fox News Digital.
Petite told local news outlet KTLA that his son was sinking to the bottom of the pool before the rescue.
“I look over and I can’t find him and I ended [up] seeing him sinking to the bottom of the pool,” Petite explained. “So that’s when I went over there, scooped him out and got him out of the pool.”
“For parents out there, if you got a pool, make sure it has a gate, a child safety lock, door alarms,” the father warned.
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Car plunges off California’s Devil’s Slide cliff into ocean, killing three passengers: cops
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Three people died Friday when their car tumbled down a cliff and into the ocean near the Devil’s Slide on California’s famed Highway 1.
Cops got a call about a single-vehicle crash just before noon that day, forcing police, fire crews and other first responders to mobilize for a cliff rescue, according to SFGate.
The car — a gray two-door sedan — careened off the southbound side of the road and dropped about 300 feet down an embankment between Pacifica and Montara, according to a California Highway Patrol spokesperson and news reports.
Authorities shut down the road for several hours as rescuers rappelled to the vehicle, which lay on its roof as seawater lapped around the wreckage.
“It was a recovery mission, and it was steep cliffs and tough terrain,” a member of Cal Fire told Fox 2 KTVU. “The car was partially submerged, so our rescuers were taking on waves.”
The impact was so violent that it catapulted pieces of the vehicle away from the wreck.
When they reached the site, rescuers quickly pronounced two of the vehicle’s occupants dead.
But an incoming high tide curtailed their efforts, which included hauling heavy machinery down the cliff so first responders could cut the car apart and recover the bodies, the station said.
A third person — also dead — was found inside the car on Saturday, the outlet said.
Cops haven’t released the victims’ identities, and the investigation is still ongoing, the highway patrol said.
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Latest Line: A good week for Kamala Harris, bad week for California unions
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Kamala Harris
President Joe Biden ends his re-election bid and supports Vice President Harris, California’s former Senator and Attorney General and San Francisco’s former District Attorney, to run in his place, as Democratic leaders quickly unite in support of her historic campaign.
Unions
California’s powerful labor unions lose key California Supreme Court ruling unanimously upholding a voter-approved Proposition 22 that allows gig-work companies like Uber and DoorDash to treat their drivers and delivery workers as independent contractors instead of employees.
Gavin Newsom
Democrats’ quick move to support Vice President Kamala Harris for president after President Biden ended his re-election bid snuffed out talk of California’s governor as a viable alternative. But recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling boosts Newsom’s effort to clear illegal encampments of homeless people that have hurt Newsom’s national image.
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California wildfire evacuee shelters with her 7 dogs
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Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in northern California are getting some help from the weather just hours after the blaze exploded in size, scorching an area larger than Los Angeles. But it is little consolation to the many who have had to evacuate or have lost their homes to the flames, including evacuee Susan Singleton and her 7 dogs. (AP Video by Eugene Garcia)
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