Man Saves Baby In Submerged Car - A Maine man has risked his life in saving a trapped infant in a submerging car in Kossuth Township, which is around 175 miles northeast of Portland.
The man from Maine reportedly jumped into the water after noticing that an infant was still inside an SUV that was drowning.
According to several man saves infant in submerged car reports, the man identified as 44-year-old Leo Moody was driving his way home on Monday when he noticed the flipped SUV in a culvert, and his instincts told him to alert 911 before rushing into the water to save the infant in the submerging vehicle, NewsMax has learned.
In an interview following the successful man saves infant in submerged car incident, Moody gushed that he was quick to react to the situation when one of the SUV's passengers told him that an infant was still strapped in the back seat of the sinking vehicle.
When he swam into the water towards the vehicle, Moody apparently had to cut through seatbelts just to free the infant and quickly motioned towards the surface with the unconscious 3-month-old.
When they made it out of the water, the baby wasn't breathing, so he handed it to another passer-by named Wade Shorey of Greenbush.
Shorey quickly attempted to revive the unresponsive baby girl by performing CPR. After being resuscitated, the infant started crying, and was eventually taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for further medical observation.
It was very fortunate that Shorey, a forester, had taken a refresher course in CPR this past spring, ABC News reports.
"He passed the car seat to me and said, 'Take it,'" Shorey said. "I got the baby out of the car seat and started doing CPR."
"Her lips were very blue the rest of her was the complexion of a pale doll...it was a heart sinking moment....and the people at the scene there, I had to tell them to be quiet, and at that point I could hear her fate, slow breathing that was very, very raspy and gurgally," Shorey said.
Amid receiving praises from the authorities and the public, Shorey told WCSH6, "We are just normal people that did what needed to be done. I am not a hero, I was...the right person at the right time."
Moody told police that the water was so cold, he couldn't feel his hands while he was cutting the seatbelt straps to save the baby.
The brave man who saved the infant in the submerged car said he "kept telling myself, don't drop the knife," which according to him he always carries with him for peeling an apple or whittling piece of alder. "They come in handy, I guess. Monday night really proved it."
Police later on confirmed the act of bravery made by Moody and the help Shorey provided him at the time.
According to a statement by the authorities, the accident happened when Stephen McGouldrick lost control of the vehicle on an icy stretch of Route 6.
He apparently rolled the SUV down an embankment into 2 1/2 feet of water. McGouldrick and two other passengers managed to escape the sinking vehicle with minor injuries only.
Later on that night, the brave man who saved the infant in the submerged car went home to his wife soaking wet and cold.
In an interview, his wife told reporters, "Just another reason why I love him - thinking of someone other than himself."
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