The six-year-old boy who came close to drowning July 4 has been home since Friday.

“As far as I know, he is home or on his way home this morning,” Pam Thompson, community relations director for The Memorial Hospital said on Friday.

Because he is a juvenile, neither the hospital nor the police department will release the child’s name.

“The boy was pulled from the water by two Maybell ambulance workers, and he was breathing when they got him out. There was no CPR administered, just some back blows. The boy started vomiting up the water and was breathing when the ERT (Emergency Response Team) team arrived,” she said.

The boy was unconscious upon his arrival at TMH, and because it was unknown how long the child had been in the water, officials decided to send him to Children’s Hospital in Denver.

“We were unsure how long his brain had been deprived of oxygen, and he had all the signs of brain deprivation, so in collaboration with St. Mary’s Hospital, it was decided to have him flown down to Denver,” Thompson said.

A CT head scan and a blood and chest scan, which are called for under the Colorado Child Trauma Protocol, were performed at TMH. Local medical experts collaborated with officials at St. Mary’s Hospital and decided that the boy needed to be sent to the Children’s Hospital.

“As he was flying out, he was conscious. He asked where his mom was, and he could tell us where the pain was, which were good signs,” Thompson said.

The case is still under investigation, said City Manager Jim Ferree. Because of that, he was unable to comment on the specifics of the incident.

“There was a full staff of lifeguards on duty when the incident happened,” Ferree said. “We’re in the process of investigating what happened.”

Ferree said he was not aware of an incident like this happening in the three-and-a-half years he’s worked with the city.

Normally, four to five lifeguards are on duty at the wave pool at a time. On Sunday, up to nine lifeguards surrounded the pool at any given time.