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Related: About this forumMaine police: Man crawled into sunken car, saved baby
&MaxW=650A Maine logger helped save an infant from drowning when he crawled into a car that was upside-down in water and used a knife to cut the straps off her car seat and pull her out, police said.
The baby wasn't breathing and another bystander performed CPR, reviving the girl, police said.
Leo Moody, 44, of Kingman, was driving home from work Monday when he saw a flipped SUV in a culvert in Kossuth Township, about 175 miles northeast of Portland. Moody said he called 911 and rushed to the vehicle.
Moody said one of the SUV's passengers told him her baby was in the back seat, and he swam to the vehicle and cut through seatbelts to free the seat. He said he then took the 3-month-old to the banks of the culvert and handed the baby and seat to another passer-by, Wade Shorey of Greenbush. Shorey performed CPR on the child, resuscitating her, Moody said.
Moody said it was cold and his hands were chilled to the point where he couldn't feel them while he was cutting the straps, and he "kept telling myself, don't drop the knife." He said he always carries the knife usually for peeling an apple or whittling piece of alder.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20141119/NEWS/141119099/101141/NEWS
Mr. Moody is a true hero.
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Maine police: Man crawled into sunken car, saved baby (Original Post)
Little Star
Nov 2014
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shenmue
(38,537 posts)1. Now this is a good person.
There still are some in the world. Whew.
My Pet Goat
(413 posts)2. Wow....
righteous good work Mr. Moody.
Edit: and Mr. Shorey too.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. Kick for a great Mainah!
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)4. Real hero
pnwmom
(109,482 posts)5. You're right. He's a hero. What a wonderful story. n/t
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)6. Did the three adults in the SUV save themselves and leave the baby there?
it kind of reads as if they left the car without the poor baby.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)7. hero
thank you, Mr. Moody.