Rodeo star Spencer Wright's 3-year-old son hospitalized after falling into Utah River on toy tractor

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The 3-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife, Kallie, is in critical condition after the boy drove into the Utah River on his toy tractor.

Wright family friend Mindy Clark, who has been posting updates via social media and spoke to KUTV, said the boy's mother ran inside the family's Beaver County home for just a moment on Tuesday.

When she came back outside, 3-year-old Levi was nowhere to be found. After a frantic search, he was recovered unconscious in the water about a mile downstream, the family spokesperson told the outlet. 

"[Kallie] saw his little tractor overturned and immediately dialed 9-1-1 and jumped into the water to find him," Clark told the outlet. "We don't know how long he had been in the water, but he had been carried quite a ways."

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Spencer Wright, 33, is ranked No. 40 in the world in saddle bronc riding. His 3-year-old son Levi fell into the Utah River on his tractor. (Stacie Scott/The Deseret News via AP)

Although they didn't disclose the child's name, the Beaver County Sheriff's Office wrote in a statement that they received a call about a boy who had fallen into the river off a toy tractor around 6 p.m. that day.

After "life-saving measures were administered on scene," Levi was transported via ambulance to Beaver Valley Hospital, then airlifted to Primary Children's Hospital, the office wrote in their Facebook post. 

The toddler was able to breathe and maintain his heartbeat on his own on Wednesday, according to an update shared by Clark on Facebook.

"His sweet little brain was without oxygen