'Extremely emotional scene': Grandpa and dad drown saving toddler from hotel pool
The toddler’s mum jumped into the Surfers Paradise pool after the child slipped, but she couldn’t swim, so her husband and father entered the water, sacrificing their lives to save her and the baby.
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It was supposed to be a lovely holiday to the Gold Coast for a Victorian family, but it ended in tragedy.
On Sunday evening, a two-year-old fell into the hotel pool at Mark Holiday Apartments at Surfers Paradise.
The child’s mother jumped in the water to save the toddler, but she also couldn’t swim, so her husband and father entered the water after her.
Although the two men, aged 38 and 65, managed to get the woman and the toddler out of the water, tragically they didn’t make it out of the pool themselves and drowned.
Paramedics rushed to the scene to find the two men unconscious in the water.
Together with an off-duty doctor, they performed CPR on the men, but they couldn’t save them.
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Father and grandfather drown saving toddler from pool
“Multiple paramedical responses attended reports of a double drowning in a pool at an address on Orchid Ave at 6:46pm on March 31,” Queensland Ambulance Services said in a statement.
“Two adult male patients, a male in his 60s and a male in his 30s were treated on scene in a critical condition.”
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Mitchell Ware, a representative for the Queensland Ambulance Service spoke to the Daily Mail, describing the situation as “extremely emotional”.
“Obviously anyone could understand that not just to lose one family member, but to lose two family members,” he said.
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