{"id":47695,"date":"2026-07-07T02:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/early-bystander-cpr-saves-3-year-old-at-salt-rock\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:47:28","slug":"early-bystander-cpr-saves-3-year-old-at-salt-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/early-bystander-cpr-saves-3-year-old-at-salt-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Early bystander CPR saves 3-year-old at Salt Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short while ago IPSS Medical Rescue and IPSS S&amp;R received reports of a drowning in progress in the Salt Rock area.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, paramedics found a 3 year old boy in a serious condition after being submerged in a pool for approximately ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the arrival of paramedics the boy was pulled from the pool and a neighbor immediately started CPR.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was stabilised on scene before being transported to a nearby facility under the care of an IPSS Medical Rescue Advanced Life Support paramedic. <\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the heroic neighbour, Jacques Joubert, who&#039;s quick action and early CPR undoubtedly prevented further tragedy.<\/p>\n<p> 0823 911 911<\/p>\n<p>Early bystander CPR saves 3 year old &#8211; Salt Rockhttps:\/\/t.co\/eImXFf3upQ#ArriveAlive #drowning #CPR @IPSSRescue pic.twitter.com\/ppoal7WhQE&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) July 6, 2026&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77882&#038;page=early-bystander-cpr-saves-3-year-old-at-salt-rock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short while ago IPSS Medical Rescue and IPSS S&amp;R received reports of a drowning in progress in the Salt Rock area. On arrival, paramedics found a 3 year old boy in a serious condition after being submerged in a pool for approximately ten minutes. Prior to the arrival of paramedics the boy was pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/740079793_27842928135303904_3495651996799847653_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/740079793_27842928135303904_3495651996799847653_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}