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'You saved his life': Teenager pulls 2-year-old out of swimming pool
John Atwater
Reporter
'You saved his life': Teenager pulls 2-year-old out of swimming pool
Mendes-Rodrigues kept her cool starting cpr as family called 911. :02 2-year-old child fell in the pool, cpr instructions in progress. 33:02 halfway through I’m just thinking, ah ah ah staying alive, keeping up with the beat, you have to be really gentle with a kid. Her training to count compressions to the beat of the disco hit Stayin Alive kicked in and by the time first responders arrived :04 stand down, fire is here, party is breathing at this time. things were looking much more hopeful. 32:26 He wasn’t unresponsive for too long, he started taking breaths, took longer for him to start breathing on his own. The boy was rushed by ambulance to the hospital for treatment, and now Savennah is grateful for the training she never expected she’d have to use. 33:36 you know when you get cpr certified, you don’t think you’re ever going to use this and then you use it and it’s like wow, I did that
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'You saved his life': Teenager pulls 2-year-old out of swimming pool
John Atwater
Reporter
A 2-year-old Massachusetts child was rushed to a Boston area hospital after being rescued from a backyard swimming pool by a family friend. The victim then had CPR performed on them by the family friend. The event unfolded Monday afternoon in the backyard of a home in Abington, Massachusetts.Family tells sister station WCVB that the boy fell into the pool. The family was able to rescue the child, and a 19-year-old family friend jumped in to help. Savennah Mendez-Rodrigues is CPR certified and says she remembered her training to count compressions to the beat of the '70s disco hit, "Stayin' Alive.""Halfway through, I'm just thinking, 'Stayin' Alive' to make sure I'm keeping up with the beat, because he's so small, so you have to be really gentle with a kid," Mendez-Rodrigues said. Mendez-Rodrigues said she didn't think about what she did until EMTs arrived. "He was like, 'You did chest compressions? ... you saved his life,'" Mendez-Rodrigues said. "I was like, oh, you know, I didn't think about it like that."That boy was taken to the hospital and his family says he is expected to recover.
ABINGTON, Mass. —

A 2-year-old Massachusetts child was rushed to a Boston area hospital after being rescued from a backyard swimming pool by a family friend.

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The victim then had CPR performed on them by the family friend.

The event unfolded Monday afternoon in the backyard of a home in Abington, Massachusetts.

Family tells sister station WCVB that the boy fell into the pool. The family was able to rescue the child, and a 19-year-old family friend jumped in to help.

Savennah Mendez-Rodrigues is CPR certified and says she remembered her training to count compressions to the beat of the '70s disco hit, "Stayin' Alive."

"Halfway through, I'm just thinking, 'Stayin' Alive' to make sure I'm keeping up with the beat, because he's so small, so you have to be really gentle with a kid," Mendez-Rodrigues said.

Mendez-Rodrigues said she didn't think about what she did until EMTs arrived.

"He was like, 'You did chest compressions? ... you saved his life,'" Mendez-Rodrigues said. "I was like, oh, you know, I didn't think about it like that."

That boy was taken to the hospital and his family says he is expected to recover.