2-year-old girl hospitalized after being pulled from water at Versluis Park

A 2-year-old girl was hospitalized Sunday afternoon after being pulled from the water at Versluis Park.

According to the Plainfield Fire Department, crews were called to the park around 4:26 p.m. for reports of a child pulled from the water unconscious and not breathing. Dispatchers say a witness alerted a Kent County Sheriff’s deputy who was already on duty at the park while another bystander immediately began CPR on the child.

When firefighters arrived minutes later, officials say the girl had started breathing again and had regained some responsiveness. Plainfield Fire Department crews and Life Ambulance personnel then took over medical treatment before transporting the child to a hospital by ambulance. Her current condition has not been released…

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