COEUR d'ALENE - A pair of Coeur d'Alene teenagers and a YMCA camp supervisor from Spokane saved a 4-year-old boy from drowning Friday at Independence Point.

The boy, whose hometown was not known at press time, was revived at the scene after bobbing unconscious in the water for around a minute, witnesses said.

He was transported to Kootenai Medical Center around 2.30 p.m. and was discharged that afternoon in good condition, according to police.

"He was just face down," said Brian Best, 16, who was on the southeast steps of the point with his friends when people spotted the boy.

Best and his friend, Darin Anderson, 18, jumped into the water after they noticed the toddler around 10 feet from the first step, near the bridge on the other side of the point from City Beach, and carried him to a patch of grass.

"He was blue," said Best. "I didn't think he was coming back. I was scared. I'm kind of shaking bad."

"I thought he was dead," Anderson said.

The boy was unresponsive. Best and Anderson began calling for lifeguards and help.

"I heard someone yell, 'Is there a doctor? Does anyone know CPR?'" said Gabe Piper, a 37-year-old camp supervisor for the Spokane YMCA who was at Independence Point with a group of kids. "I saw this little boy. He was blue and his eyes were rolled back."

Piper said he felt for but couldn't find a pulse on the boy when he began CPR. He rolled the boy on his side at times and after a couple of sets of compression, the boy revived.

"He came to and he started coughing up blood and water and stuff and then he started to scream so I just encouraged him to scream," said Piper, who is certified and trained in CPR as part of his responsibilities at the YMCA.

The boy's parents were not at the scene at the time. He was being watched by at least one teenage baby-sitter, police at the scene said.

It was the first reported near drowning near City Park this year, and the first in several years, according to Nancy Lowery, beach manager. Lowery and her daughter, Tisha Taylor, head lifeguard, were the first lifeguards to respond.

Hundreds of people were at the beach, as temperatures hovered around 90 degrees.

Six lifeguards are stationed at City Beach to supervise the roped off swimming area off the west side of the Independence Point steps. They're not stationed at the spot where the boy was found, but patrol that area from time to time as well.

"He had great care even before EMS arrived," Lowery said. The boy was not part of a day camp, but camps should call the city if they plan to come to the beach so lifeguards can be prepared. Parents should also keep a close eye on their children near open water, she said.

"There needs to be someone over here too, some sort of authority," said Trevor Robertson, who witnessed the event. "I've never been so scared. These guys are heroes. They saved his life."