I’m all about feel-good stories this week. They don’t do as well as political stories, but nonetheless we need them in order to cope with life.
So here’s a heroic story about a Florida Sherrif’s Deputy who rushed into action and saved a little baby’s life.
Watch:
Here’s more from MY FOX 8:
Deputy Jeremie Nix was on his way home when a woman flagged him down and told him her baby was unresponsive.
Shortly after, the officer was rushing to a Florida hospital with the 3-month-old boy in his arms.
“I’m not waiting on medics … I’m headed to the emergency room with the baby,” he told a dispatcher Wednesday.
Dashcam video released by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office shows the deputy making a U-turn at a red light in Ocala, Florida, before pulling on the side of the road to meet baby Kingston and his mother.
Nix quickly took the baby on his arms and put him on the ground, the video shows.
“I just kind of panicked and started crying and I was just like tell me that he is breathing,” the boy’s mom, Nechole Crowell, told WESH.
For several minutes, he performed “several life-saving measures on the child” but didn’t see any improvement, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
With no ambulances or medics around, Nix grabbed the boy, got in his patrol car and drove to the Ocala Regional Medical Center.
“I remember praying, thanking God for putting me in the right place, at the right time for the right reason,” Nix told reporters Thursday. “This was the most emotional day I’ve ever had in my career. It was also the scariest and the most rewarding.”
Kingston was discharged from the hospital Thursday and is expected to make a full recovery, the sheriff’s office said.
“We are tremendously proud of Deputy Nix and we can already see that he and Baby Kingston will have a deep connection that will last a lifetime,” the sheriff’s office said.
Here’s a three minute dashcam video of the incident:
I love to see these kind of stories in the country that I love.
Such heroism and good will really stands in contrast to this horrible story out of France:
The incident happened in the city of Strasbourg in northeastern France in December. However, there’s new interest in the case after a recording of the call surfaced.
“We are waiting for justice to be done … to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” the woman’s father, Policarpe Musenga, told reporters Thursday. “Whether it was bad will or dysfunctions, it is a serious error.”
In the three-minute call on December 29, Naomi Musenga calls the local ambulance service, complaining of severe stomach pain.
Operator: “Yes hello?”
Musenga: “Hello … Help me, ma’am.”
Operator: “Yes, what’s going on?”
Musenga: “Help me.”
Operator: “Well, if you do not tell me what’s going on, I will hang up.”
The woman can’t fully articulate her condition and says she’s in a lot of pain. In response, the operator tells her to call a doctor.
Musenga: “I’m gonna die.”
Operator: “Yes … you will die, certainly, one day, like everyone else. Call the SOS doctors.” [The operator gives her the number to SOS Médecins, France’s medical emergency service that sends doctors directly to a house.]
Musenga: “Please, help me, ma’am.”
Operator: “I can’t help you, I don’t [know what’s wrong with you].”
Musenga: “I have a lot of pain, I have very bad pain.”
Operator: “And where?”
Musenga: “My stomach hurts a lot … and I feel terrible everywhere.”
Operator: “Yes, well, you call SOS doctors.” [The operator gives her the number again.]
The woman later dies:
Musenga hung up. Eventually, a relative called a doctor who came to Musenga’s house, the family lawyer said at the Thursday news conference. The doctor had her taken to a hospital. Shortly after arrival, she suffered two heart attacks, was taken to intensive care and eventually died, according to BFMTV.
What a shockingly horrible response from an emergency services operator. I hope the family gets justice for this…and a lot of money. A lot.
ON that note, this is your open thread. So enjoy!