By Police1 Staff
RED HOOK, N.Y. — A Red Hook police officer saved the life of a two-year-old boy after stopping the father’s vehicle.
Sgt. Patrick Hildenbrand stopped the speeding vehicle, prompting the father Matthew Morgan to exit the vehicle, frantic about his lifeless son.
Hildenbrand put the father and his son in the backseat of his SUV and headed to the hospital at full speed, calling ahead to alert the medical staff, according to Poughkeepsie Journal.
Hildenbrand had Morgan hold the boy up to the partition to check for a pulse, then began coaching Morgan on CPR techniques.
“I have long arms,” Hildenbrand said. “I had my arm reaching backwards and I started doing two-finger compressions.”
The boy began breathing again with the help of medical staff once they arrived at the hospital.
Blood tests later revealed that the boy had suffered a seizure, according to the report.