Nail-biting moment heroic Georgia officers save four-week-old baby's life in parking lot
The nail-biting moment two heroic Georgia police officers saved an infant's life after she became unresponsive at a CVS was caught on camera.
Forest Park Officers Jimmy Arnold and Angelic Coley were discussing how the latter had never responded to an infant emergency call in her five years on the force when that exact call came in, they told Fox 5 Atlanta.
A four-week-old baby was unresponsive at a Forest Parkway CVS on May 14.
Bodycam footage showed the officer rushing to the scene, sirens blaring as Coley hopped out of the car and sprinted into the pharmacy.
When she arrived inside the store, customers informed her the baby was out back with the mom a little way down the street.
'The baby, she's not breathing, please,' the mother, who was not identified, begged as she passed the child into the arms of Arnold.
'We got it, we got it,' Coley comforted her.
As Arnold cradled the baby, Coley was seen performing CPR on the baby. Shortly after, the baby began to cry.
'We're breathing,' Arnold calmly said.
'She's moving, she's okay,' Coley told the mother.
Arnold and Coley have been partners since they started on the force five years ago.
'He's definitely my crutch. I'm his muscle,' the female cop told Fox 5 Atlanta.
They credit their excessive training as the reason they were able to calmly handle the situation and save the infant's life.
Despite Georgia's requirement of only 20 hours of annual police training, Forest Park personally requires their officers to do 100 hours.
Arnold had completed his CPR course just weeks before the incident.
However, the irony wasn't lost on Coley, who was aware just moments before the life-saving call she had said she wasn't ready.
'It's an awesome feeling,' she told Fox 5 Atlanta of successfully saving the little girl's life. 'Especially knowing that 17 minutes before that call, I said that I wasn't ready.'
While she and Arnold were talking about it before the call, her partner had told her: 'Nobody is ever ready for that.'
The police department posted the bodycam footage to congratulate their officers on a job well done.
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