A Los Angeles Fire Department crew was reunited Tuesday with a 3-year-old girl who was saved from drowning in Studio City.<\/p>\n
The near-drowning occurred on May 9. First responders were at the scene within four minutes of getting a call that a child had been pulled from a swimming pool, according to the LAFD\u2019s Jennifer Middleton.<\/p>\n
The 3-year-old, whose name is Keira, was lying next to the pool, wasn\u2019t breathing and had no pulse when the crew arrived.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout hesitation, the members of Station 86 took immediate control of the emergency scene,\u201d Middleton explained. \u201cWithin five minutes of the initial 911 dispatch, paramedics initiated advanced resuscitative care, seamless(ly) combining continuous CPR with critical airway management.\u201d<\/p>\n
After four minutes of working on the girl, her heart was beating again.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeira\u2019s vital signs steadily improved throughout transport to a local emergency room,\u201d Middleton said. \u201cUpon arrival, the receiving emergency physician expressed strong optimism for her full medical recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, on Tuesday, Keira, with her parents and brother present, joined the responding crew members, who were formally recognized for saving the girl\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing weighs on a firefighter like a call involving a child,\u201d a presenter with the LAFD said during the presentation of honors. \u201cWhat this crew accomplished under that level of pressure represents the very best of our department.\u201d<\/p>\n
Images from the ceremony showed the beaming rescue crew posing with Keira and her family.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing Keira here today with her family reminds all of us why we do this work,\u201d the LAFD official who presented the honors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles Fire Department crew was reunited Tuesday with a 3-year-old girl who was saved from drowning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-502579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}