Holly Hill, FL - 2 children are dead after they were pulled from a backyard swimming pool at a Volusia County home.
Volusia County dispatchers say the call for help came around 11:30am Thursday, sending paramedics to a home on the 1400 block of Valencia Avenue near Holly Hill.
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Gary Davidson says 911 dispatchers got a “frantic” call about a 2-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy not breathing after they were found in the pool.
“Deputies and paramedics began arriving at the scene within 3 minutes,” Davidson added. “The children were rushed to area hospitals.”
One of the children died at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach while the other died at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center near Ormond Beach.
VCSO’s Major Case Unit is speaking to the 2 adults and 1 child in the home at the time of the incident as part of the investigation, per Davidson.
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