A toddler, who fell into a Vallejo creek during a fishing trip with his grandmother, is expected to make a full recovery.
Police said he has been taken off all medications after nearly drowning on Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters received a report around 4 p.m. that a child had fallen into a creek that runs along Fairgrounds Drive near the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, said Battalion Chief Cliff Campbell.
When they arrived on the scene, a woman told them she had been fishing with her grandson when he had fallen into the water.
"She told us that she usually ties a rope around his waist when she fishes down there because he's only 2 years old," Campbell said. "She had not done that yet and she turned around for a minute and he fell into the water."
The grandmother was unable to reach the boy because she could not swim, but firefighters were able to quickly locate him in a drainage culvert that ran below where she had been fishing, Campbell said.
The boy is thought to have been in the water around 10 to 15 minutes.
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Firefighters were able to get a pulse at the scene and at Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, and the boy was being prepared for a transfer to Children's Hospital in Oakland in critical condition on Saturday evening, Campbell said.
