Chris Miles didn’t think twice when she left her 2-year-old grandson Nathan playing alone at her coffee table last August while she went upstairs to make some beds.
When she came back downstairs a few minutes later, one of Nathan’s cousins asked where the little boy had gone.
“Fear stuck my heart,” Miles recounted Friday at a news conference about water safety hosted by Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital.
The surface of the family pool appeared calm at first, but as Miles approached she spotted Nathan, face down in the water. She jumped in, grabbed him and tipped his head back and began to blow into his mouth.