A boy has died after being pulled unconscious from a pool on the state\u2019s mid north coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7:30pm (Friday 9 January 2026), emergency services were called to Bobs Farm following reports a four-year-old boy was unresponsive after being pulled from a pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Family members performed CPR until NSW Ambulance paramedics arrived and took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The boy was treated at the scene before being taken to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition, where he later died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Port Stephens\/Hunter Police District attended and commenced inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A boy has died after being pulled unconscious from a pool on the state\u2019s mid north coast. About 7:30pm (Friday 9 January 2026), emergency services were called to Bobs Farm following reports a four-year-old boy was unresponsive after being pulled from a pool. Family members performed CPR until NSW Ambulance paramedics arrived and took over. … Continue reading “Boy dies in drowning – Port Stephens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36822,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821\/revisions\/36822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}