Dad and kids aged two and five are found dead in their enclosed swimming pool in the backyard of their Hollywood, Florida, home
- Hollywood Police Department officers were called to the home on South Highland Drive around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday
- They performed CPR on the victims, who were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, where they were pronounced dead
- The children were aged five and two. There was no information released about the adult found with them
- A family with five children currently lives in the house, one of whom had just left for college, according to reports
- No foul play is suspected, but the number of minors drowning pool’s in Florida has reached new heights
Two young children and their father were found unresponsive after drowning in a backyard pool at a South Florida home, police say.
Hollywood Police Department officers were called to the home on South Highland Drive shortly around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, spokeswoman Deanna Bettineschi told DailyMail.com
They performed CPR on the victims, who were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
The children were aged five and two. There was no information released about the adult found with them.
Police told DailyMail.com that they are still investigating the tragedy. No more details were immediately available but there is no foul play suspected, police said.
An unidentified man and two children, ages five and two, were found unresponsive in the pool when police responded around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday
The tragedy took place at 733 South Highland Drive in Hollywood, Florida, after the children’s mother found the three victims drowned in the water
Footage showed multiple officers at the home examining the backyard pool area.
The house’s current residents are a family with five children, one of whom had just left for college, according to a neighbor who spoke to WSVN.
‘It’s horrible, and I’m shaken right now. We’re cordial, and here and there we say hi to them,’ the neighbor told the outlet.
‘We really keep to ourselves in this neighborhood until something like this happens, unfortunately.’
Hollywood is south of Fort Lauderdale and just 21 miles north of Miami in Broward County.
The victims were taken to Memoria Regional Hospital (pictured) where medics performed CPR on them, but they were later pronounced dead
New state data from the Florida Department of Children and Families shows that child drownings hit a record high in Florida last year with 98 children, aged 18 and under, dying in 2021.
In 2019, there were 65 child drowning deaths in Florida, and 69 drowning deaths occurred in 2020.
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