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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Forest Park officers rescue unresponsive 4-week-old
The City of Forest Park is calling a pair of officers heroes after their quick efforts to save an infant earlier this month. Police say officers were called to a CVS on Forest Parkway on May 14 to reports of an unresponsive 4-week-old. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Body camera video shows the officers arriving at the CVS and searching for the child and mother. They found the mother running from the store and looking for help. After giving the child a few chest compressions, the baby started to breathe. 'In moments where every second counts, their training, composure, and commitment made all the difference. We are deeply thankful and incredibly proud of their actions," the police department wrote. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
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.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Forest Park officers hailed as heroes for saving infant's life with swift CPR
The Brief Forest Park police officers Lt. Jimmy Arnold and Cpl. Angelic Coley successfully revived a 4-week-old baby using CPR, highlighting their quick response and teamwork. The officers credit their department's rigorous training standards, which exceed Georgia's requirements, for their preparedness in handling the emergency. A remarkable coincidence placed the officers near the scene, allowing them to respond swiftly, with their advanced training in infant CPR proving crucial to the baby's revival. FOREST PARK, Ga. - Two Forest Park police officers are being praised for their life-saving actions after reviving a 4-week-old baby who had stopped breathing outside a CVS pharmacy on May 14. Body camera footage shows Lt. Jimmy Arnold and Cpl. Angelic Coley rushing to the scene on Forest Parkway, where they immediately began CPR on the unresponsive infant. What they're saying The officers arrived within a minute of the call. Arnold cradled the baby while Coley began chest compressions. Within about 10 seconds of CPR, the baby began to cry — a sound the officers described as pure relief. "Relief," Arnold said. "Yes, absolutely — relief." "Every second that goes by that that child's not receiving oxygen to the brain — those are critical seconds," Arnold said. The officers, who have worked together at the Forest Park Police Department for five years, credit their strong partnership and the department's rigorous training standards for their quick response. "He's definitely my crutch. I'm his muscle. He is the crutch. So I'm the muscle here," Coley said. While Georgia only requires 20 hours of police training annually, Forest Park Police Chief Chris Matson mandates 100 hours. Arnold said he had recently completed a CPR-focused course just six weeks earlier. "So the minimum standard for Georgia police officers is 20 hours of training. Chief Chris has a higher standard. He requires that we have 100 hours of training," Arnold said. Coley noted the irony that just minutes before the call, she had told Arnold she had never responded to an infant medical emergency and wasn't sure she'd be ready if one ever came. "We were actually having a conversation about working juvenile calls," she said. "I told him, within my five years of being here, I haven't worked a call of such — and I'm not ready to. And he said, well, nobody is ever ready for that." But she was. "It's an awesome feeling, especially knowing that 17 minutes before that call, I said that I wasn't ready," Coley said. In a remarkable coincidence, the officers had responded to a separate call at the same CVS earlier that day and were nearby when the emergency came in. "I definitely think God was, he was in that parking lot," Coley said. Both officers say the advanced training — particularly the distinctions in how CPR is performed on infants versus adults — played a crucial role in the successful outcome. The Source FOX 5's Eric Mock spoke with Lt. Jimmy Arnold and Cpl. Angelic Coley, both of the Forest Park Police Department, for this article.
