Toddler saves baby in pool | Maryland Gazette (HometownGlenBurnie.com)

Rosa Wright of Glen Burnie was asking herself that question yesterday, hours after her grandson, Jason Alstin, shouted out a warning that his baby brother, Ramon, was in the backyard pool.

"All I know is we're just blessed. That's all I know," Ms. Wright said. "All I could do was pray till I got home."

Ms. Wright's daughter, who asked not to be identified, was home with the children yesterday morning at the family's home on Stafford Hill Court. She was cooking fried chicken when she opened the back door slightly to let smoke out.

Division Chief Michael Cox, county Fire Department spokesman, said the older boy went to shut the door, and saw his 1-year-old brother floating in the water of the pool.

"The baby said that 'Mon's in the pool,' he calls him Mon. I'm glad he didn't go into get him because he knows how to swim," Ms. Wright said.

The child's mother and his great aunt, Evie Burgos, quickly pulled the boy from the water and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Ms. Burgos is a nurse who, along with her children, is visiting her sister from Philadelphia.

When a police officer arrived at the home he took over CPR until paramedics got there, Chief Cox said.

The 1-year-old was conscious and breathing when the ambulance pulled up to the home, and he was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie with serious injuries. He was later transferred to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

Ms. Wright was at her job at the Rugged Warehouse clothing outlet in Glen Burnie when her daughter called.

"All I did was drop the phone and said my grandbaby drowned and I have to go!" she said. "I ran to the door but they wouldn't let me drive, they took me home."

Although Ramon was still in the hospital last night because of water in his lung, Ms. Wright said her grandson is expected to recover.

At home yesterday afternoon, Ms. Wright tried to think how little Ramon had gotten into the water. The pool is down a flight of several steps from the back deck, and the gate to it is always kept locked when an adult isn't present.

"Last night me and my sister were out there, cleaning out the pool out there," she said. "I might have not locked the pool area."

Yesterday's incident was at least the second involving young children and backyard pools in north county this summer.

A 1½-year-old boy drowned in his family's pool behind their Pasadena home early on June 3.

Dayden Alexander Dunn had crawled into his parent's bed in the middle of the night, at the home in the 8000 block of Forest Glen Drive. When his parents awoke at just before 8 a.m., they noticed the boy was not with them.

Several family members searched for Dayden, only to find him floating in the pool. The were unable to revive him.