By Paul Koepp, Staff Writer
A toddler nearly drowned Tuesday afternoon in the pool of the Southridge Woods apartment complex off Northumberland Way in Monmouth Junction.
A Hillsborough High School student, Ray Sanchez, 17, who was acting as lifeguard for the pool, saved the life of the 2-year-old boy, whose name was not released by police.
According to police, the lifeguard heard commotion and found the child lying face down in the 3-foot shallow end of the pool. He carried the boy, who was blue in the face, out of the pool and performed CPR until the child was able to spit up water, police spokesman Detective Jim Ryan said Tuesday evening.
Police arrived within a minute and the Kendall Park First Aid Squad soon arrived and took over CPR.
The boy was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick shortly after 4 p.m., where he was in stable condition, Detective Ryan said.

