Young Girl Dies After Being Found Unresponsive in Pool at Kansas City Water Park: 'Deeply Saddened'

Mar. 15, 2025

A child who was critically injured last week at a water park in Kansas City, Missouri, has died.

A lifeguard responded to the girl last week after noticing she was in distress at 6:45 p.m. on July 5, a park spokesperson for Cedar Fair Entertainment told theKansas City Star. The staff member was able to pull her from the water, and emergency medical personnel as well as the Kansas City Fire Department provided care for her at the scene, per the report.

“Any time we’re responding to an incident with a child is really sad,” Jason Spreitzer, a fire department spokesperson, told the newspaper.

Afterwards, she was reportedly transported to a local hospital.

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Additional details about what happened and her injuries are not yet publicly known.

The Kansas City Fire Department did not immediately responded to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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Coconut Cove is described on the World of Fun website as a 4½-foot deep “superpool” filled with a mix of “different play elements” as well as six “short body slides and floating animals.”

source: people.com