Amid lifeguard shortage, pool safety for kids receives renewed attention as summer approaches
Hemet, California – It happened in a matter of seconds. Security video shows 18-month-old Cole Petit getting out of his life preserver. He then went to the family pool in Winchester, California and slid under the surface of the water. “Like a bag of bricks, straight down,” his father, Zachary Pettit, told CBS News. Petit was just feet away, applying sunblock to his daughter. He dived for his son and rescued him from the water. “I think I acted in a way that any normal parent would have reacted,” Pettit...