A near drowning in Butler County leaves a 3-year-old girl in critical condition just days after a 7-year-old boy drowned in Clark County.

Experts say 30 percent of the drownings that happen during the year will happen during July. Drowning claims the lives of 830 children every year. Most of those happen during the summer.

Whether it's a pool or a pond, doctors and emergency crews say you can never take too many precautions.

"It's frustrating to us because it's a child," says Craig Murphy, the Butler County Sheriff.

Butler County officials are still trying to piece together how a 3-year-old girl managed to get through a fence and a boarded entrance to a pool at her home in Douglass before falling in Wednesday afternoon, leaving her in critical condition.

"It didn't look good and around 9 o'clock last night," Murphy says. "I was told they had moved her to ICU."

Murphy says every precaution was in place to make the pool safe. He says it's just a tragic accident.

"They had taken precautions with the pool. The little girl, from what we are understanding, somehow got over that rail," said Murphy.

It's just the latest in a string of drownings around the state. Earlier this month a 3-year-old boy lost his life after he drowned in a Wichita pond and earlier this week a 7-year-old boy drowned in Clark County. Officials say it doesn't take long for trouble to strike.

"If you turn your back, they're off doing something else," said Murphy.

Officials say drownings increase 89 percent during the summer for children 14 and under.

36 children drowned in Kansas between 2000 and 2004. 81% of those were under the age of 5. Safe Kids Kansas officials say they hope those numbers go down this year and they're asking every adult to help make that happen.

"Child proofing your swimming pool or around a lake or body of water doesn't mean you can 100 percent prevent," says Wesley ER Doctor Mark Mosley. "But at least you're doing your best."