Cops Save Baby's Life After She Stops Breathing In Midtown Subway

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Three NYPD officers rescued a baby girl who wasn't breathing Thursday night in a Midtown Manhattan subway station.

Shortly before 6 p.m. an MTA worker and two parents carried an 11-month-old girl to the police post inside the West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue subway station, an NYPD spokesman told Patch. When officers noticed the baby girl was limp, they opened the door to the post in order to help the parents.

The girl's father told officers Daniel Velazquez and Mike Reilly that the baby was not breathing, an NYPD spokesman said. Velazquez and Reilly began performing CPR on the baby when a third officer, John Williams, arrived on the scene.

Williams, who is a volunteer EMT, realized the baby was suffering a seizure and instructed the officers to get ice packs, an NYPD spokesman told Patch. Williams cut the baby's clothes and applied ice packs to her chest, behind her head and between her legs to cool the baby down, an NYPD spokesman said.

The baby instantly began to cry, which meant she was breathing, and was later transported to Bellevue hospital, an NYPD spokesman said.

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