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(Scroll down for video) A little girl died in a swimming pool in front of her mother after an electrical current hit the water, according to emergency workers in North Carolina.
An evening at swim practice turned deadly for an eleven-year-old in Davidson County.
Lauren Cecil was electrocuted while swimming in the pool at Brookside Swim Club, Tuesday, at 8:00 pm.
A power line snapped about fifty feet away from the pool. The electricity traveled through the ground and sent a high voltage current through the water. The president of Brookside Swim Club, Julie Rhodes, said that people at the pool heard a loud "pop" sound and saw a power line near the road opposite of the swimming club fall into the parking lot.
Rhodes sent a lifeguard to the parking lot to check on the cable. They were worried that the cable will pose a risk to parents and children in the parking lot when leaving practice. The cable did not fall into the pool.
Rhodes said that there were about 5 children in the pool area at the time of the incident, and about three of them in the water in the moments before the electric current traveled through the water. The children were not immediately told to leave because the cable had not fallen into the pool and did not pose an immediate threat.
When some of the children began saying that the pool felt funny, lifeguards told them to leave. Two of the children jumped out, but Lauren grabbed the ladder in order to leave.
The lifeguard, a swimming coach and Rhodes were shocked with electricity when they tried to pull Lauren off the ladder. They kept her head above water with a wooden board, until they could get her out.
Lauren's mother was in the pool and witnessed the event. Rhodes said she ran to her daughter when she began to struggle.
Emergency workers arrived at the scene and did CPR until Lauren was brought to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Some of the other children, who had been in the pool with Lauren, were checked by emergency workers at the scene, and they did not require further treatment.
The pool is still closed, and the power is still turned off.
Rhodes said that Lauren was a happy child, who was practicing hard on Tuesday night, during one of the last practices before the Davidson County Swim Championships this weekend.
Lauren’s swim coach said that the family wants the contest to continue as planned.
The Office of the Davidson County Sheriff is investigating the incident.