{"id":65655,"date":"2025-11-22T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65655\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:02:47","slug":"ridgecrest-boy-hailed-as-hero-for-helping-woman-in-medical-emergency-on-walk-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65655\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgecrest boy hailed as hero for helping woman in medical emergency on walk to school"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A nine-year-old boy was recognized as a hero by emergency personnel during a city council meeting after helping a woman experiencing a medical emergency during his walk to school.<\/p>\n

Officials with Ridgecrest said on November 3, 2025, during his walk to school with a friend, the boy, Jace Swader, was met with a scene of a woman, who was alone and having a medical emergency.<\/p>\n

Jace flagged down a passing driver to have them call 911.<\/p>\n

Jace then stayed on the sidewalk with the victim, laying down next to her to let her know she was not alone, according to officials.<\/p>\n

He didn’t leave the scene until the adult was in the care of Kern County Fire and Liberty Ambulance.<\/p>\n

Jace was recognized as a local hero during the city council meeting on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

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A nine-year-old boy was recognized as a hero by emergency personnel during a city council meeting after helping a woman experiencing a medical emergency during his walk to school. CREDIT: City of Ridgecrest<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need more people like Jace in our community,\u201d said Ridgecrest Police Chief Mario Ysit during the meeting. \u201cWe are very proud of Jace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jace said during the meeting, \u201cI would like to give a thank you to my parents and my family who took their time to come down here. And my teacher who teaches me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A nine-year-old boy was recognized as a hero by emergency personnel during a city council meeting after helping a woman experiencing a medical emergency during his walk to school. CREDIT: City of Ridgecrest<\/p>\n

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In a social media post by the City of Ridgecrest, it said, \u201cThank you Jace, what an amazing example of kindness and bravery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A nine-year-old boy was recognized as a hero by emergency personnel during a city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-65655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65655","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=65655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}