NSW:Five people nearly drown in an hour in NSW

AAP General News (Australia)
01-01-2011
NSW:Five people nearly drown in an hour in NSW

SYDNEY, Jan 1 AAP - Paramedics have responded to five near-drownings in NSW in the
space of an hour.

As temperatures soared on New Year's Day, paramedics across the state saved five people,
including two toddlers, from drowning in pools and the sea.

A one-year-old child nearly died in the first incident, just after midday (AEDT) on
Saturday, at Melinga on the north coast.

The child was airlifted to John Hunter hospital.

A minute later at 12.10pm (AEDT), a woman in her 20s got into difficulties in the water
at Malua Bay on the …