Officer Jennifer Wilson responded first. When the 13-year police veteran found a 4-year old lying facedown in a pool of his own blood, her heart sank.
“Anything with a child — I’m a mom first, and a wife — that kind of thing sticks with you,” she said.
Wilson began CPR immediately, and after severals breaths, and chest compressions, the boy began breathing on his own.
That night, Wilson said, she held her own kids tighter.
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She just kept thinking to herself, I will get you back. She promised the stranger whose chest she was performing CPR on that she would save him.
A 19-year-old woman who had learned CPR about five years ago ran to the rescue when other students were fleeing. She found a 20-year-old man on the floor. He had suffered a massive heart attack.
Around 200 compressions, she heard a noise that sounded like air getting into his throat. She called it a miracle.
The young man survived and our young hero feels like a different person.
“It just puts your whole life into perspective that you’re alive right now and you’re healthy and it just really put everything into perspective that that is the most valuable thing that you could ever have is your health.”
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When Lizzy Stavers saw three people standing around a prostrate woman, she stopped to help.
One of the standers-by said she thought the motionless woman in the street was dead. Lizzy felt for a pulse, and when she couldn’t find one she gave two breaths and started CPR until medics arrived and whisked the victim off to the hospital.
This is the second time that Lizzy has saved someone in her neighborhood using CPR.
The local police gave Lizzy a commendation for her heroic efforts. And we’re sure the neighbors are pretty happy to have her around too.
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