They say smartphones are taking over our lives but it seems they're saving lives as well. A one-month-old baby is alive today thanks to an Idaho mechanic who came to his rescue. But the man would have never known of the crisis if it wasn't for the smartphone app he had installed on his cellphone that alerted him of the emergency. That's what really saved the day!
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Mechanic Jeff Olson who also volunteers as an EMT, recently downloaded an app called Pulse Point, which notifies people in the area of emergencies. That day he received a notification to his phone alerting him that there was a crisis at Empire Dance shop, located just a few blocks from where he works. "It sounded like an Amber alert, you know how they come out, and so I looked at it and it said CPR needed and it gave the address," he told KXLY.
Apparently the one-month-old boy was at the dance shop and had stopped breathing. Store clerk, Lesley Reckord heard that the baby was turning blue and immediately dialed 911. "When you hear that you just pick up the phone and call 911, so I did that and I saw her and she was just saying, "He's not breathing," he's not breathing," she told the station. Reckord tried rescue breathing until Olson finally arrived at the scene. He performed CPR and managed to get the baby breathing before emergency health care staff got there.
"I don't think I've ever done CPR on an infant before or even rescue breathing and when I got done I shook for about ten minutes ya know," he said.
Talk about life saving! Technology might have its cons but the fact that a man was alerted of an emergency and able to save a baby's life is nothing short of a blessing. This is a truly amazing story and thank goodness that baby boy is safe and sound!
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