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Julie Quinn. <\/p>\n
“My boyfriend turned around and he pointed out, that boat just flipped, we just whipped it around, got life jackets out,” Quinn said.<\/p>\n
When they arrived at the crash site, Quinn spotted something barely visible above the water’s surface.<\/p>\n
“As we pull up, you could see the top of his ears and it was going to his hairline, and everyone’s pointing at him, I’m like is that a person?” Quinn said.<\/p>\n
It was Neal Kirby, a lifelong Cape Coral resident and avid boater who became the sole survivor of the devastating crash. Quinn and her friends quickly pulled Kirby onto their boat and began life-saving measures.<\/p>\n
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Neal Kirby. <\/p>\n
Despite learning CPR in a high school class almost 10 years ago, Quinn had never used it in a real emergency until that moment.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know, it kicked in instantly, we laid him down and started singing, stay alive, stay alive, and kept pace with that song,” Quinn said.<\/p>\n
She said performed chest compressions for around six minutes while they transported Kirby to waiting paramedics. Her efforts proved successful.<\/p>\n
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Marian Simon. <\/p>\n
“Once we got to the dock, I felt his chest inflate, and he started moaning and making some sounds,” Quinn said.<\/p>\n
Kirby remains hospitalized as he continues battling his injuries from the crash. His family has reached out to Quinn to express their gratitude for her quick thinking and life-saving actions.<\/p>\n
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Neal Kirby. <\/p>\n
“Hopefully one day we can see face to face and hug, I would love to see his family and his dad, that would mean the world to me,” Quinn said.<\/p>\n
Quinn encourages everyone to learn CPR, emphasizing that you never know when those skills might be needed to save a life.<\/p>\n
FOX 4 REPORTS ON THE VICTIMS OF THE SPEED BOAT CRASH:<\/p>\n
Fatal yacht club boat crash shakes Cape Coral community, takes lives of beloved autism supporters<\/p>\n
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission identified the victims as Craig Millett, Brenna Millett and Rebecca Knight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A Cape Coral woman who learned CPR in high school nearly a decade ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31746,39410,209,39412,263,211,210,39411,39415,39308,704,39413,39414],"class_list":["post-67445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-boat-crash","tag-brenna-millet","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-boat-crash","tag-cape-coral-florida","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cpr","tag-cpr-training","tag-craig-millett","tag-emergency","tag-mti-39-speed-boat","tag-neal-kirby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}