{"id":189297,"date":"2023-11-28T03:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=189297"},"modified":"2023-11-28T03:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:24:38","slug":"moment-hero-teenager-saves-the-life-of-three-year-old-drowning-in-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/moment-hero-teenager-saves-the-life-of-three-year-old-drowning-in-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment hero teenager saves the life of three-year-old drowning in pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Incredible moment hero teenager, 15, SAVES the life of three-year-old family member drowning in swimming pool by pulling her out and performing CPR on her after learning it at school<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maxine Atkinson, three, crawled into the family&#8217;s pool on Thanksgiving Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She was pulled out of the water by a relative but was clearly not breathing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>15-year-old cousin Madison performed CPR and was able to save the girl&#8217;s life<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the incredible moment a hero teenager saved her three-year-old cousin from drowning after using CPR she learned at school.<\/p>\n<p>Home video cameras show Maxine Atkinson crawling into the backyard on the morning of the family&#8217;s celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, her uncle saw her floating face down in the pool, with aunt Kirsten Atkinson describing her as &#8216;lifeless.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>As Maxine&#8217;s uncle called for help and tried to do the Heimlich Maneuver, Kirsten&#8217;s 15-year-old Madison Atkinson immediately raced out and started performing CPR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Madison&#8217;s just pumping away for for a couple of minutes, and finally, Maxine starts to open her eyes and start to breathe,&#8217; Kirsten told the Today Show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/02\/78302277-12797909-A_California_15_year_old_used_her_CPR_lessons_to_become_a_local_-m-7_1701139393589.jpg\" height=\"460\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A California 15-year-old used her CPR lessons to become a local hero after she saw her three-year-old cousin drowning in the family&#8217;s pool over the Thanksgiving holiday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/02\/78302333-12797909-As_Maxine_s_uncle_called_for_help_and_tried_to_do_the_Heimlich_M-m-8_1701139414423.jpg\" height=\"571\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>As Maxine&#8217;s uncle called for help and tried to do the Heimlich Maneuver, Kirsten&#8217;s 15-year-old Madison Atkinson immediately raced out and started performing CPR<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/01\/78302337-12797909-image-m-17_1701136481245.jpg\" height=\"639\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Little Maxine has since made a full recovery but just in case, the rest of the family is planning to get CPR training themselves<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=06r_wfOLRO8%3Frel%3D0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The dispatcher said, &#8216;Put her on her side.&#8217; And when we did that, Maxine opened her eyes and starts to literally breathe on her own.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Madison is the captain of her high school junior varsity cheerleading team and had also taken a sports medicine class where she was taught CPR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I saw that he was trying the Heimlich,&#8217; she said of her father. &#8216;But I knew in that case you needed CPR because she didn&#8217;t seem like she was breathing. I told everyone I knew CPR and it calmed everyone down.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was just trying to remember what I&#8217;m supposed to do,&#8217; she added. &#8216;I was just like let&#8217;s get this baby alive &#8211; no one else knew CPR.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>What was most remarkable to mother Kirsten was how Madison never overreacted throughout the life-saving incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The entire time Madison&#8217;s there just calm, cool, collected, not panicked,&#8217; she added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/01\/78302187-12797909-image-m-11_1701136332650.jpg\" height=\"504\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Home video cameras show Maxine Atkinson, 3, crawling into the backyard on the morning of the family&#8217;s celebration. Minutes later, her uncle saw her floating face down in the pool, with aunt Kirsten Atkinson describing her as &#8216;lifeless&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/01\/78302331-12797909-image-m-15_1701136435976.jpg\" height=\"603\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Madison is the captain of her high school junior varsity cheerleading team and had also taken a sports medicine class where she was taught CPR<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were shocked upon arrival when they discovered how old the heroic teenager was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Their faces were just like, this could have been so different,&#8217; she said. &#8216;They commended her and they said that, you know, she has performed a miracle.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Atkinson said the whole ordeal gave a completely new meaning to the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were able to celebrate Thanksgiving in a different way, right? It was about, you know, how precious life is and how things can change in the blink of an eye,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Little Maxine has since made a full recovery but just in case, the rest of the family is planning to get CPR training themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12797909\/Incredible-moment-hero-teenager-15-SAVES-life-three-year-old-family-member-drowning-swimming-pool-pulling-performing-CPR-learning-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible moment hero teenager, 15, SAVES the life of three-year-old family member drowning in swimming pool by pulling her out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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