A 2-year-old girl has died after she fell into a septic tank at a Texas RV park — drowning as rescuers scrambled to save her, according to officials and reports.
Little Charleigh Nicole Nelson was walking on the lid of the wastewater tank at Para🧸dise Lagoons RV Resort in Aransas Pass Wednesday when she plunged nearly 15 feet, .
Her horrified family tried to rescue the girl with rope and shovels to no avail — as cops and firefighters raced to the scene, the local station reported.
Rescuers clambered to pull the child out through a 2-foot-wide hole in the tank — which was filled with 3 nearly feet of water — at around 5:30 p.m., the Rockport Volunteer Fire Department said in a .
They꧒ removed the child’s lifeless body fro⛦m the tank after about an hour.
“This is a terrible tragedy for the family of this chil🅰d, her neighbors who witnessed the event, and all of theℱ 1st responders who assisted in the recovery,” the press release states.
Th🌸e chilꦛd’s heartbroken mother Brittney Nelson said she was in “disbelief” after the fatal fall.
“We are clinging to each other tonight…Please, please keep praying,” she wrote on . “Pray for our family members that are traveling to us as well. I love each and every person who has messa♚ged us. Weℱ are definitely going to need yall.”
It wasn’t immediately clear 𝔉Friday how the child fell into the septic tank but park residents told KRIS-TV the girl that the lid of the tank buckled underneath her.