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A YOUNG CHILD was saved from serious injury when a quick-thinking tourist spotted the toddler was about to fall from her hotel’s fourth-floor balcony and rushed to rescue her.
Helen Beard was at the pool of the Econo Lodge in Orlando when she spotted the child dangling from a balcony at the hotel and ran to catch her, WKMG reports.
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Emergency services told WESH Orlando that the woman successfully broke the two-year-old girl’s fall and neither was injured.
The girl was taken to hospital as a precaution because she had struck a railing during the fall, but did not have any bruises or marks.
Police said that the child’s parents had been in a different room and a friend was watching the child at the time. Officials from the Department of Children and Families are investigating the incident and have met with the parents.
Wednesday 20 November, 2024
Wednesday 20 November, 2024
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Toddler saved from four-storey fall by British tourist
A YOUNG CHILD was saved from serious injury when a quick-thinking tourist spotted the toddler was about to fall from her hotel’s fourth-floor balcony and rushed to rescue her.
Helen Beard was at the pool of the Econo Lodge in Orlando when she spotted the child dangling from a balcony at the hotel and ran to catch her, WKMG reports.
Emergency services told WESH Orlando that the woman successfully broke the two-year-old girl’s fall and neither was injured.
The girl was taken to hospital as a precaution because she had struck a railing during the fall, but did not have any bruises or marks.
Police said that the child’s parents had been in a different room and a friend was watching the child at the time. Officials from the Department of Children and Families are investigating the incident and have met with the parents.
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