A 4-year-old girl has died after she was found floating in a backyard pool early Friday morning, leaving neighbors in the El Portal community heartbroken and searching for answers.
Authorities said someone called 911 at around 3:40 a.m. to report the child in distress. A dispatcher could be heard in a radio transmission saying, “The patient is in the pool and drowning.”
Emergency response and hospital transport
Paramedics rushed the girl from the home, located near NW 90th Street and NW 1st Avenue, to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Through a police transmission, CBS News Miami found a woman inside the house saw the child in the pool, but was not able to help her…