Mom, Two Children Clinging to Life After Drowning in Hollywood Motel Pool

A woman and two of her children were clinging to life today after drowning in a Hollywood motel swimming pool, authorities said.

Neither the woman nor the children were breathing when they were pulled from the pool at the Hollywood Premiere motel, 5333 Hollywood Blvd., around 3:30 p.m. Monday, and none had a pulse, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said.

Paramedics performed CPR as they were taken to hospitals -- the woman to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and the children to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

The three were admitted to hospitals in “grave condition,” said LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey. As of about 6:30 a.m. today, their conditions were unchanged, said Los Angeles police Officer Liliana Preciado. Their names were not released.

The 36-year-old woman -- identified by police as the mother of four children who were swimming in the pool -- apparently was near the pool or came to the gated pool to find her 11-year-old son and her 12-year-old daughter “in extreme distress in deep water,” Humphrey said.

“Diving into the 7-1/2-foot-deep pool in her street clothes, the woman was later found unresponsive in the water alongside her son and daughter by an unidentified passerby, who rescued the trio and commenced resuscitation before LAFD crews arrived,” Humphrey said.

The good Samaritan said he had just learned CPR. There was no lifeguard at the pool, which is fenced. The woman’s two other children -- believed to be younger than the other two -- apparently stayed in the shallow section of the pool, and were found unharmed, Humphrey said.

It was unclear if the family members were guests at the motel or visiting there, authorities said.

--City News Service