DROWNED Toddler MIRACLE Recovery ! | Amazing RESCUE Story

Rescue workers act quickly to help a little boy found trapped underwater ! * * * * * ------- [MARCH 2009]

DENVER - He's beaten the odds. Just one week ago, when Robbie Arumburo was rushed to Swedish Medical Center, not breathing and unresponsive after being pulled from a water-filled ditch, doctors didn't think he would live.

Tuesday, his doctors said he's living proof that you can survive the near impossible.

"He's not really a thrill seeker," Erica Illig, Robbie's mom, said.

Robbie is doing well, but is still affected by the sedation he was on. A week after he was pulled from an irrigation canal by a Good Samaritan, Robbie was dancing a little and he'll get down from his hospital bed and stand and walk around on his own.

"They thought he was not going to make it. Most people thought he was not going to make it. He looked so bad. He was so cold," Dr. Martin Alswang of Swedish Pediatric Intensive Care said. "Which possibly is what protected him, but initially I thought this patient had no chance of surviving."

When 9NEWS visited him, Robbie stayed very close to his mom. The few words he's using right now are "mama," "hi" and "there." His recovery has surprised them all.

"Saturday they said they weren't going to take the tubes out until Monday and they took them out that night and he just kind of made a complete turnaround," Illig said.

Alswang added, "We do say 'wow' because as I say, the chance we gave him was 1 percent for being normal and maybe 10 percent for surviving at all. So, we're all extremely happy and proud with how well he's done and proud of what happened with the Good Samaritan who pulled him out. The paramedics did an excellent job and they probably deserve a huge pat on the back for what they did because they probably played the biggest role as well."

It wasn't even a call they would have gone too; it is a different jurisdiction. But the "A Shift" at West Metro Fire Station 12 was really in the right place at the right time.

Unlike some other fire departments, West Metro Fire has paramedics on its fire engines and the engines are fitted with life saving equipment.

"Everything happened just perfectly for this youngster to survive," Doug King, a firefighter, said.

"We were heading to Sam's Club to get groceries after our morning training. We were driving down Belleview when I noticed something. I saw a commotion. Then someone jumped up and started waving their arms so we pulled over," Engineer Doug Schmotzer said.

That is when they saw Robbie. They realized the situation they were walking into was exactly what they had gotten more training for about 15 minutes earlier.

"We had just finished two-hour training with our video conferencing program about pediatric resuscitation. We had measured the exact medicine we needed for a young child like this," Paul Cernick, a firefighter, said.

"We want to say we are all macho and say that we are just doing our jobs and that's that. The truth is we have been watching to see if he is going to be OK. Almost all of us have little kids and when you go on a call like this they are always difficult. It was not a run of the mill call for us," Jarrod Leonard with West Metro Fire said.

"Certainly a lot of things lining up in the right way and the result is a great outcome. It is just a miraculous ending for sure," Cernick said.

Robbie is being moved out of intensive care on Tuesday. Doctors say he'll be out of the hospital soon.

When Robbie does get out, he'll join his two brothers and sister who are currently living with his mom's cousin.

Illig says she was told she can get her children back when she can prove she can take care of them by getting a job and creating the right environment.

When Robbie does get out of the hospital, his mom wants him to meet the man who jumped into the ditch to save him and the paramedics who were driving by and transported him to the hospital.

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[IVANALUVSMJ]

Wher was his mom?!??!???

[achinoy]

These instances prove the existence of God.

He decided the time we were born, and He will decide when we will leave this world.

[shellyscorner]

WOW! HOW QUICKLY YOU JUDGE!!! How can u judge someone with out knowing the whole story? Put yourself in the mom's place. What if it were you being judged? I don't know what happened either, but until I find out,...I won't be judging and hanging mom! If she did anything so terribly horrible do you REALLY THINK that the authorities would be letting her near the child? It just pains me how ugly people are to each other, especially without knowing the facts! Can't you guys be nice to each other?

[rebamac96]

Poor kid...glad hes.ok

[guinealand840]

Uhhhh...?!?! How the kid get in the water in the first place?! Why should those parents still be his gaurdian?!

[aymannaheem]

awww hes so cute

& fuck him mum :/

leavin him like that :/

[weves87]

@korndollissues69 what the f**k were you doing?

[TheReptilianElite]

His mother is korndollissues69... Click on her name above to see what a nasty skank she really is!!!

[TheReptilianElite]

@korndollissues69 Oh, so... you're the boy's mother?? Where the fuck were you when he was playing in the river? You piece of shit, you don't deserve to ever see your child again!

[MrHailsey]

where was his mam/mum