Photo: Berkeley County Sheriff's Office
A video released by the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office shows the quick-thinking of a deputy who was able to save a baby girl’s life. And he did so while thinking he was performing a routine traffic stop for speeding.
Deputy Will Kimbro was on a routine patrol on the day he pulled a car over for speeding in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The incident happened on June 11 but it’s only been made public now, when the Sheriff’s Office released bodycam footage to honor Kimbro’s heroic action, Fox 59 reports.
Inside the speeding car were 2 women: the passenger was the mother of a 12-day-old baby girl who had stopped breathing after drinking from a bottle of milk. They were rushing to the hospital with the baby, they told him.
Kimbro instantly asked to be handed the girl and noticed that, indeed, she had blueish lips from the lack of oxygen and that her whole body was limp. Knowing that time is of the essence in such cases, he rushed to do what he’d been trained to do.
He placed the baby back in her mother’s lap and began chest massage, while talking to the child. After some time, he was able to find a pulse and to get her breathing again, but she was going in and out of consciousness. Kimbro continued CPR until paramedics arrived, but by then, the baby girl was already in a relatively stable condition.
When first responders got on the scene, Kimbro and the young mother told them what had happened, and the deputy detailed his efforts in reviving the baby girl. They took over from there.
For his heroic act, Kimbro was awarded a medal by the Sheriff’s Office. The baby girl is fine now, spokeswoman Carli R. Drayton says for the media outlet.
“As far as we know, the baby has been doing well,” Drayton says. “Because of Deputy Kimbro’s steadfast, professional and heroic response, the 12-day-old baby was able to live.”
Inside the speeding car were 2 women: the passenger was the mother of a 12-day-old baby girl who had stopped breathing after drinking from a bottle of milk. They were rushing to the hospital with the baby, they told him.
Kimbro instantly asked to be handed the girl and noticed that, indeed, she had blueish lips from the lack of oxygen and that her whole body was limp. Knowing that time is of the essence in such cases, he rushed to do what he’d been trained to do.
He placed the baby back in her mother’s lap and began chest massage, while talking to the child. After some time, he was able to find a pulse and to get her breathing again, but she was going in and out of consciousness. Kimbro continued CPR until paramedics arrived, but by then, the baby girl was already in a relatively stable condition.
When first responders got on the scene, Kimbro and the young mother told them what had happened, and the deputy detailed his efforts in reviving the baby girl. They took over from there.
For his heroic act, Kimbro was awarded a medal by the Sheriff’s Office. The baby girl is fine now, spokeswoman Carli R. Drayton says for the media outlet.
“As far as we know, the baby has been doing well,” Drayton says. “Because of Deputy Kimbro’s steadfast, professional and heroic response, the 12-day-old baby was able to live.”
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