Calgary toddler OK after falling into septic tank at Maple Creek rest stop
A Calgary mother is in disbelief after her young daughter fell through a broken sewer lid at a Tourism Saskatchewan rest stop in Maple Creek.
“I was standing right there beside her. I tried to grab her. I touched her hand and I didn’t … I didn’t catch her in time,” Denaie McCarthy said of the moment that 21-month-old Nataya fell through.
Thankfully, McCarthy’s husband, Trevor Pickersgill, heard the girl scream and jumped down the approximately 10-foot drop behind his daughter.
“He didn’t think for a second and jumped in and grabbed Nataya because she was getting pulled towards the building through another tunnel of some sort,” McCarthy said. “He reached in there, grabbed her leg, pulled her out and held her up and her eyes were all bug-eyed and she started crying.”