CARTHAGE — A 3-year-old Dixfield boy who fell into the Webb River on Wednesday afternoon is home with his dad, Travis Laughton, and step-mom, Katie St. Pierre after spending a night at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

Ethan Laughton apparently took an innertube and walked into the Webb River at the home of April Brown while the group was packing up to go home around 3:15 p.m.

St. Pierre said when she saw him in the water he had fallen off the tube. She said the time lapse was only a minute or two.

“I saw him floating. I ran into the water and grabbed him. Diamond Varnum helped Ethan and me out of the water,” she said Friday afternoon.

St. Pierre, who is a nurse at Rumford Community Home, said he had no pulse and was not breathing when she started cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

He was resuscitated within a few minutes.

A friend, Candy Berry, called 911.

In the meantime, an unidentified first responder from Dixfield, who is also a member of the Med-Care Ambulance Service, arrived and hooked Ethan up to an oxygen tank. Within minutes, a Med-Care ambulance arrived to take Ethan to the ball fields at Harlow Park in Dixfield where he was loaded onto the helicopter and flown to the Portland hospital.

Ethan’s mother, Dolly Turbide, also went to the Portland hospital to be with her son, said St. Pierre. She could not be reached for comment.

St. Pierre was grateful to everyone.

“We want to thank everyone who responded so quickly,” she said.

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