Little girl rescued from pool at beach resort on South Coast
The incident took place a few days before Christmas.
There have been far too many drowning incidents on the South Coast this holiday, especially in the Umdoni municipality region.
However, closer to home there has been a story to bring some cheer, with Johannesburg man Renier Wehmeyer (26) saving a little girl from drowning in a pool at a self-catering beach resort on the South Coast.
The incident took place a few days before Christmas.
His girlfriend Rene Lamprecht explained how they had been sitting outside their chalet after a long day of swimming in the ocean when a little boy came to them and said that a child was drowning in the pool and that he needed help.
Renier, who has his own young child of nearly two years old, jumped up and ran to the pool.
When he got there the girl (aged around four years old) was floating in the pool.
“Renier pulled her out and performed CPR, but the type he obviously has seen in the movies because he doesn’t really know CPR,” explained Rene.
“The girl eventually started vomiting and then when she began crying we realised she was safe and would be okay. We called an ambulance and medics came and took over,” she said.
Renier works as a printer technician for an office automation/IT company. He is a keen fisherman and has been on holiday to the coast several times, but this is one he won’t ever forget.
“It shows how God puts people in places for reasons we would never know or expect,” said Rene.
