BROOKSVILLE – A local toddler walked away from a fall out of a third-story window Monday afternoon.

Nineteen-month-old Aidan DeBeck, the son of Sara and Christopher DeBeck, fell an estimated 25 to 30 feet from a playroom window at his home on Harborside Road, but aside from a little soreness and a few tears, he’s doing fine, his mother said.

Sara DeBeck said Aidan’s adventure began sometime after 2 p.m. Monday, when she put him down for a nap.

The DeBecks are doing some remodeling, so his regular second-floor bedroom is filled with furniture. Aidan has been sleeping in a playpen in the playroom on the third floor, Sara DeBeck said Tuesday.

“I put him in the playpen, which he’s just started climbing out of,” she said. “He wasn’t really sleepy, so I gave him some books, put the gate up and turned on the monitor.”

DeBeck then went downstairs to check on her 3-year-old daughter, Grace.

Listening to the monitor, she heard Aidan climb out of the playpen, but he seemed to be playing quietly.

She was about to check on him when she heard a thump.

“I asked my daughter if she made the sound,” DeBeck said. “She said, ‘no.’ I could hear him crying, but in the monitor it sounded far away. Then I noticed the curtain from the room was lying on the ground.”

DeBeck then realized that her son had either pushed through the screen of an open window or fallen through it. She estimated he fell 25 to 30 feet from the third-floor window and landed on the patchy grass in the yard below.

And then, he got up.

“He was crying. But he had gotten up and was walking around the side of the house,” his mother said. Shaking, the distraught woman called her mother, who lives next door. A neighbor heard her shouting and came over. Then they called 911.

Dispatchers at the Hancock County Regional Communications Center called Peninsula Ambulance and the Brooksville Fire Department and put the LifeFlight helicopter service on alert. Fire Department personnel and paramedics arrived and, although Aidan appeared OK, they recommended taking him to the hospital as a precaution.

Because of Aidan’s age, the LifeFlight crew had not waited for a second call, and the helicopter already was in the air when the call came. They took young Aidan and his mother to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Again as a precaution, the staff at EMMC decided to keep Aidan overnight for observation. Later that night he was up and about, running around the pediatric unit at the hospital, his mother said.

“In the end, he had no injuries at all,” she said. “It was just amazing.”

Aidan was back at home Tuesday, none the worse except for a little soreness, she said. He has become something of a local star with the media interest in the incident. His uncle calls him a “superhero.”

Tuesday evening Aidan had not yet taken another nap in the third-floor room, and it may be awhile before he does.

“We don’t know what we’re going to do about sleeping yet,” Sara DeBeck said. “But he’s not going to be in that room alone ever again. Not with the window open.”

Aidan is an active, curious child, his mother said, but he has never done anything like this before.

“I said his curiosity got the best of him this time,” she said.

She said she’s just happy everything turned out all right.

“I call him a rock star,” she said. “Then I told him never to do anything like that ever again.”

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