A babysitter watching the 10-year-old girl who fell into an open well Monday in Pasadena tried to keep the girl calm, calling her “baby” and “sweetheart” while on the phone with 911 operators.
“I’m right here baby,” the said, according to an edited version of the call released by county fire officials Tuesday. “You are being so brave baby.”
Anne Arundel County firefighters rescued the girl about 4:30 p.m., half an hour after she fell into the 30-foot deep well behind a home in the Green Haven neighborhood.
The girl fell into the well while playing in the backyard of her home in the 800 block of 207th Street, said Division Chief Keith Swindle, a department spokesman.
At 4 p.m. the department received a 911 call from the house.
“There’s a child in a well…” the babysitter said.
The child, who can be heard faintly in the background, expresses…
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