“I actually took my foot, because I had an infant in this hand, and I actually took my foot and pulled him up by his swim trunks and grabbed him and yelled and got him over to the side,” Crabtree said.
>> Crews working to save girl after report of near drowning in Butler County
Crews were dispatched around 2:40 p.m. to the home in the 6400 block of Prairie Creek Court, according to dispatchers.
Family members performed CPR before medics arrived, and he was awake and alert by the time he left for Dayton Children’s Hospital.
“He was pretty blue when we got him out,” Crabtree said. “It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through.”
The boy’s condition wasn’t available but family members said he will be OK.
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