Fort Worth officers rescue baby after crash | RAW
Body camera video from the Fort Worth Police Department shows officers and Good Samaritans moving a car to rescue an infant who was trapped after a rollover crash. The officers gave the baby girl CPR and had her breathing again by the time paramedics arrived.
FORT WORTH, Texas – The Fort Worth Police Department is praising two of its officers who helped to lift a car and revive an unresponsive baby after a crash on Interstate 30 last week.
What’s new:
FWPD Chief Eddie Garcia, Sgt. R Nichols and Officer E. Bounds are expected to speak to the media on Tuesday.Â
You can watch the news conference live at 2:30 p.m. in the video player below.
Dramatic Rescue
The backstory:
The crash happened this past Thursday morning on I-30 between Eastchase Parkway and Cooks Lane. A woman and her infant child were both ejected in a rollover accident.
Body camera video shows Fort Worth police officers and several Good Samaritans frantically searching for the baby girl. They eventually realized she was pinned under the overturned vehicle.
“Hey! Over here. We need to move the car. I think the baby’s under here,” an officer shouts.
Sgt. Nichols and Officer Bounds got help from the witnesses to lift the car and grab the child. She was unresponsive at the time.
The video also shows the officers performing CPR on the infant. She was awake and crying by the time paramedics arrived to take her to the hospital.
Fort Worth police said both she and her mother are expected to make a full recovery.
The Source: The information and video in this story were provided by the Fort Worth Police Department.
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