Posted on 11/19/2014 8:20:54 PM PST by smokingfrog
A Maine logger helped save an infant from drowning when he crawled into a car that was upside-down in water and used a knife to cut the straps off her car seat and pull her out, police said.
The baby wasn't breathing and another bystander performed CPR, reviving the girl, police said.
Leo Moody, 44, of Kingman, was driving home from work Monday when he saw a flipped SUV in a culvert in Kossuth Township, about 175 miles northeast of Portland. Moody said he called 911 and rushed to the vehicle.
Moody said one of the SUV's passengers told him her baby was in the back seat, and he swam to the vehicle and cut through seatbelts to free the seat. He said he then took the 3-month-old to the banks of the culvert and handed the baby and seat to another passer-by, Wade Shorey of Greenbush. Shorey performed CPR on the child, resuscitating her, Moody said.
Moody said it was cold and his hands were chilled to the point where he couldn't feel them while he was cutting the straps, and he "kept telling myself, don't drop the knife." He said he always carries the knife — usually for peeling an apple or whittling piece of alder.
"They come in handy, I guess. Monday night really proved it," Moody said.
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bttt
God bless him, and the other person that stopped to help. Hopefully this child will recover. Prayers up.
America is still a great country despite our "leadership".
It seems the hero had to justify, to the reporter, having a pocket knife??
Yup.
The entire planet is getting rougher and tougher wile the anglospere becomes pussified.
That life saving knife merely being in his possession would get him arrested in a lot of liberal dominated locations.
In the UK cops are now demanding such knives be turned in.
It’s late November in a town 175 miles northeast of Portland, Maine. That water was probably just warm enough not to be frozen. Good on him is right
God bless this man. Prayers up for the child’s full recovery.
Nuff said.
Timberrrr!
Great story!
Here's an obvious question, not answered in the article: Did she try to rescue her own baby?
I wondered the same thing. I’d like to think that if I were in the same situation, nothing would stop me from trying to do the same.
She may have been injured?
Gibbs’ Rule 9:
Never go anywhere without a knife.
good advice
She probably did try, but could not free the child without a blade, especially if her hands were frozen also. I could easily see her standing on the banks screaming for someone to help.
God bless the man who gave the baby CPR. I had to give my youngest daughter CPR after falling into the creek in Georgia and I still have nightmares about the eyes.
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