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AIR OAKS, Calif. — It can happen in a split second; when a child falls into a pool or spa and isn’t able to get back out. That split second happened to Dwight and Crystal Johnson and their 3-year-old son Mason in March.
“We noticed that it got quiet, you didn’t hear any rusting,” Crystal Johnson said. “We ran to the pool and discovered him at the bottom of the pool, face down.”
Mason was under three feet of water, in the bottom of the family spa. Sacramento Metro Paramedics were at the Johnson’s Fair Oaks home within minutes. “I begged them,” Crystal Johnson said. “Saying, ‘Please, please don’t give up on my son. Please, I can’t lose my son.’ And he looked right at me and said, ‘Ma’am, I’m doing everything that I can’.”
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