Child rushed to hospital after near-drowning in North Lauderdale pool

A boy was rushed to a hospital Sunday after being pulled from a pool on Pebble Beach Road in North Lauderdale, where Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and North Lauderdale Fire Rescue spent hours trying to piece together the scene.

The incident unfolded in the 6600 block of Pebble Beach, not far from McNab Road. Deputies received reports before 10 a.m., and the boy was pulled from the pool around 10:30 a.m. First responders transported him to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Officials did not release the child’s condition, and investigators remained on the property for hours as they worked to determine what led up to the near-drowning.

The North Lauderdale call landed in a week already marked by tragedy in Broward County and nearby Plantation. A 2-year-old was found unresponsive in a Plantation lake the prior week, and a 4-year-old girl died in Plantation just days before that. Earlier in June, another North Lauderdale child, a 4-year-old boy on the 1600 block of Southwest 63rd Terrace, was pulled from a pool after dispatchers got a 911 call at about 10:08 a.m. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death for children ages 1 to 4, and the Broward County drowning-prevention coalition’s mission is to protect children from aquatic-related injuries and disabilities, with a vision of zero drownings among children in the county.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and local swim-safety advocates called the recent cluster of child drownings a public health crisis. Her office said Florida had recorded 62 drowning deaths in 2026 so far, including 13 in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties combined.