ROXBURY – A 4-year-old girl found floating face-down in Roxbury Pond late Thursday afternoon was resuscitated and taken to a Lewiston hospital.

The unidentified girl is the daughter of Kim Towers of Rumford, said State Trooper Terry James, who was at the scene on another matter. Towers could not be reached Friday.

The child’s condition at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston was unknown Friday afternoon. But Med-Care Ambulance Director Dean Milligan said the little girl was stabilized at Rumford Hospital, then transferred by Med-Care to CMMC by ambulance.

“As far as I know, the child is doing OK,” he said Friday afternoon.

Med-Care was sent to the third beach at Roxbury Pond at 4:54 p.m. by a 911 operator at the Oxford County dispatch center in Paris.

The pond, which is also called Ellis Pond and Silver Lake, is 13 miles from Med-Care’s station in Mexico, on a rough, winding road.

Milligan said that when two paramedics and an intermediate EMT arrived at 5:09 p.m., the child was conscious, crying and had started to become alert.

“We were told that the mother saw the child floating face-down in the water, and yelled to alert people in the water, and they pulled the girl out to the beach,” he said.

James said bystander Cindy Kungulus of Rumford performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the child.

“We were told she did CPR compressions and ventilations. After a couple of sets of five compressions and one ventilation, the child vomited water, and began coughing and choking,” Milligan said.

“It was pretty horrific. She vomited a great amount of water. It was a fairly-close-to-dying thing,” James said.

The medics were on the scene for four minutes, long enough to run across the beach, pick the girl up, place her onto a stretcher and put her into the ambulance, Milligan said.

She was rushed to Rumford Hospital. It was undetermined how long she had been in the water, but Milligan said the girl was not far from shore.