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UPDATE: Saige Pfeffer, 2, Pronounced Dead After Being Pulled From Westhampton Beach Swimming Pool

authorAmanda Bernocco on Sep 2, 2015

UPDATE: Tuesday, noon

The 2-year-old child who was pulled from a pool in a Westhampton Beach backyard last week has died, according to police. She was identified as Saige Pfeffer.

Saige's parents, Daniel Pfeffer and Heather Landau, of New York City, noticed she was missing and found her in the backyard in-ground pool. The family was renting the Oneck Lane house for two weeks, said Westhampton Village Police Detective Ed Hamor.

Saige was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center by Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance. She was pronounced dead on Friday, September 4, due to drowning complications, Det. Hamor said.

UPDATE: Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.

A 2-year-old child nearly drowned in a pool in a Westhampton Beach backyard Wednesday afternoon, but rescue workers were able to revive the child. Officials would not describe the child’s condition.

Westhampton Beach Village Police responded to reports of a drowning on Oneck Lane Wednesday at 12:13 p.m.

The 2-year-old—police did not identify the child or provide the child’s gender—was in an in-ground swimming pool before becoming unresponsive, said Chief Trevor Gonce. He would not say if the child was being supervised by his or her parents at the time of the incident “because it’s still under investigation.”

When police arrived at the scene, CPR was already being performed, said Chief Gonce, but police quickly took over.

Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance also responded to the scene and transported the child to Peconic Bay Medical Center, Chief Gonce said.

Al Tudisco, the chief of the ambulance company, said when the child arrived at the hospital, doctors were able to get a pulse back.

ORIGINAL STORY:

The Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance responded to a reported drowning at a home on Oneck Lane in Westhampton Beach early Wednesday afternoon.

Al Tudisco, the chief of the ambulance company, said he could only confirm that an ambulance crew had been dispatched to the scene.

Westhampton Beach Village Police did not immediately return calls seeking comment about the incident.

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