VERGAS, Minn. (KFGO) – A toddler in Otter Tail County was taken to the hospital by helicopter after nearly drowning Tuesday.
First responders were called to a home in rural Vergas just after 12:45 Tuesday afternoon after a woman discovered her son had fallen into open water and was not breathing.
The woman was outside with her three kids when she noticed her one-and-a-half-year-old wasn’t next to her. She quickly found him face down and unconscious in 4-and–a-half feet of water behind an old barn. The area had been dry before recent rain. The child was revived and flown to a hospital.
Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office, Vergas Fire, Vergas Rescue, Perham Ambulance, and LifeLink III responded.
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