Boy rescued from Hoffman Estates pool

Thanks to the efforts of other children and a lifeguard, a boy was rescued from drowning Friday afternoon in a pool at a Hoffman Estates.

Hoffman Estates Fire Battalion Chief Patrick Fortunato said a boy was playing in the pool without other children around 3:30 p.m. at a townhouse complex on the 1800 block of Williamsburg Drive when he became submerged.

The child was pulled from the water and brought to the side of the pool. The lifeguard then performed CPR for a minute to a minute and a half while someone called 911.

"By the time we arrived on the scene, the subject was already out of the pool and the lifeguard had performed CPR and the patient already had a pulse and was breathing on their own," Fortunato said.

Firefighters took the boy to St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates.

Fortunato praised the action of the children and the lifeguard.

"They did a great job. What they did was exactly what you would hope would happen: the kids knowing exactly what to do - to call for help - and the lifeguard knowing what to do once they removed the child from the pool," he said. "It all happened very quickly. By the time firefighters arrived from the fire station, which is close proximity to the complex, they were told the lifeguard was performing CPR."