Jensen Beach boy, 7, saves sister in swimming pool mishap
March 28th, 2012 by TCPalm.com
Julie Banasiak of Jensen Beach holds her daughter Brooke, 2, at their Jensen Beach where Brooke was saved from drowning in their family pool Saturday by her brother Brady, 7. (Photo by HOBIE HILER)
JENSEN BEACH — Brady Banasiak, 7, was the hero Saturday when a birthday party for one of his aunts almost turned tragic.
The blond-haired, blue-eyed Brady saved his 2 1/2-year old sister, Brooke, from drowning after the toddler fell in the pool at the family’s home in the 500 block of Ember Way in The Pines subdivision.
“It was the worst sight ever,” dad Rob Banasiak said of his daughter’s fall.
The family was having a 40th birthday party for one of mom Julie’s sisters.
Brady Banasiak, 7, of Jensen Beach talks Tuesday about saving his sister Brooke from drowning in their family pool over the weekend, as his father Rob Banasiak watches. (Photo by HOBIE HILER)
She drifted to the bottom at a depth of 3 to 4 feet.
Brady was jumping on a trampoline when he said got hot and decided he needed a dip in the pool to cool off.
After diving in the pool, he floated to the bottom, where he felt something against his foot.
He looked down and saw his sister, not moving.
“At first I thought she was playing. Then, I remembered Brookie can’t swim,” Brady said Tuesday, using his sister’s nickname.
So, the 4-foot, 58-pound Brady carried his sister’s 28-pound body to the surface.
Brooke’s blond head was hanging back, foam was coming from her mouth and her breath was shallow, Rob Banasiak said.
Rob Banasiak, a physical therapist, said he took his daughter and rolled her on her her side and she began spitting up water.
“She started screaming at the top of her lungs,” Julie Banasiak said. “It was the best sound I’d heard my entire life.”
Stuart Fire Rescue responded to the call and took the girl to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach. Doctors couldn’t find any water in her lungs but kept her overnight for observation.
Doctors said if Brady had chosen to surface and call for help, his sister probably wouldn’t have made it, Julie Banasiak said.
“It had to be God,” Julie Banasiak said.
But not all cases involving children who fall into swimming pools have a happy ending, Martin County Fire Rescue Bureau Chief Daniel Harshburger said.
“Typically the outcome is usually something negative, tragic,” he said. “You normally don’t get kids bouncing back.”
When Brooke came home from the hospital, she heard Brady asking to go in the pool. She wanted to go, too.
“She knows that she doesn’t want to go under the water again,” Julie said.
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This is amazing. The Brady is a true hero. Him choosing to carry his sister to the top saved her life and saved the family from a horrible outcome. Way to go Brady. Good Job
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