Boy, 4, seriously injured in fall from second-story window

A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized Wednesday with a serious head injury after falling from a Woodland area home’s second-story window.

Firefighters were called to the 300 block of Hillshire Drive in Woodland shortly after 2 p.m.

Clark County Fire & Rescue’s Tim Dawdy said a mother called 911 after her 4-year-old leaned against a window screen, which broke, and fell from the second floor into the yard.

Fire and medical crews from Woodland and La Center responded, Dawdy said, to help treat the boy at the scene. A Clark County Fire & Rescue paramedic rode with him in the ambulance to the hospital.

Dawdy said the boy was seriously injured.

It’s the time of year for these sort of calls, he said.

“We really want people to be very vigilant, and to really watch this kind of thing, because this happens every single year in the summertime,” he said.

Kids are rambunctious and prone to bounce into things, he said, and it’s important parents take a moment to secure upper-story windows.