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TUCSON - A 4-year-old Tucson boy who seemed fine after a near drowning ended up hospitalized for two days.

The boy's 12 year old aunt Ckasia Williams remembers the incident well because she's the one who saved him. She said, "I went out to 9 feet and when I looked back I didn't see him. I looked around and he was under the water. I hurried up and I grabbed him. His eyes were rolling back so I did CPR on him."

The boy's family said he looked fine, he was even playing and laughing moments later, but when his breathing started to sound funny they took him to the hospital and learned he still had water in his lungs.

Lashree Williams, the boy's Grandmother, said, "I had no idea Traycell had water on his lungs. Even the EMT there said he was fine but he wasn't."

Firefighters said even with a thorough examination it's just impossible for them to detect. Trish Tracy with the Tucson Fire Department said, "We can listen to the lungs and do all sorts of things to evaluate somebody but we don't have an x-ray machine and that's how it was detected that there was fluid on this child's lungs was from an x-ray."

An x-ray, that perhaps, saved his life. An intense moment the family can barely talk about.

Williams said, "I really believe that something drastic could have happened. I don't even want to say the words but something could have happened where we would have had to call someone back out."

Firefighters say anytime you have a near drowning, the person should be checked out at the hospital, no matter how good they look or feel.