METHUEN, MASS. (WHDH) - Methuen Deputy Fire Chief Dan Donahue is encouraging people to learn CPR after a near-drowning incident involving 5-year-old girl on Thursday.
Fire officials say a woman who spotted the little girl face down in the pool pulled the girl out and started CPR.
Firefighters arrived on scene and brought the girl to a hospital.
“We can’t stress enough how important it is for the general public to know CPR. We find all the time people that do CPR end up saving people and it makes our jobs so much easier,” Donahue said. “In Methuen, we’ve had several infant deaths in the last three months and it’s nice to finally have a child that we were able to rescue.”
Donahue tells us that the young girl was awake and breathing on her own when she arrived at the hospital.
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