mouth, bloody foam. and i the whole time i m thinking, he s dead. he s dead. i hear my children screaming, dad, dad, dad. as i m giving him chest compressions, another huge swell starts hitting, which at this point, while i m trying to get water out of him, waves are coming in and just just funneling in his mouth. and gary arrived really shortly after. i get over there and we realize that we have to move this kid. oh, my god. gary and rob carry the teen to higher ground and continue cpr. his eyes are rolled in the back of his head. he s limp. it appears as though he is dead. and there was a moment where we re like, he s dead, he s dead. we are looking at each other. and that s when i just said, no way, we are not going to let this kid die. no way. so we get up to the side. i start cpr, pumping his chest, turning him on his side.
foam started coming out of his mouth, bloody foam. and i the whole time i m thinking, he s dead. he s dead. i hear my children screaming, dad, dad, dad. as i m giving him chest compressions, another huge swell starts hitting, which at this point, while i m trying to get water out of him, waves are coming in and just just funneling in his mouth. and gary arrived really shortly after. i get over there and we realize that we have to move this kid. oh, my god. gary and rob carry the teen to higher ground and continue cpr. his eyes are rolled in the back of his head. he s limp. it appears as though he is dead. and there was a moment where we re like, he s dead, he s dead. we are looking at each other. and that s when i just said, no way, we are not going to let this kid die. no way.
and i the whole time i m thinking, he s dead. he s dead. i hear my children screaming, dad, dad, dad. as i m giving him chest compressions, another huge swell starts hitting, which at this point, while i m trying to get water out of him, waves are coming in and just just funneling in his mouth. and gary arrived really shortly after. i get over there and we realize that we have to move this kid. oh, my god. gary and rob carry the teen to higher ground and continue cpr. his eyes are rolled in the back of his head. he s limp. it appears as though he is dead. and there was a moment where we re like, he s dead, he s dead. we are looking at each other. and that s when i just said, no way, we are not going to let this kid die. no way. so we get up to the side. i start cpr, pumping his chest,
way, we are not going to let this kid die. no way. so we get up to the side. i start cpr, pumping his chest, turning him on his side. gary and pumping his chest and his stomach at the same time. and water is just pouring out of the kid. i was just holding his head steady. i was thinking this mentally, and not stopping, and not stopping pretty much until the kid groaned and then a helicopter. a helicopter and emt s arrive to help the teen. they don t know if he was alive or dead. he was under water for so long and unconscious for so long i thought there was no way. and when we got him in the harness to be helicoptered out, right at the last second as we hooked him up to the line he got his legs under his on his own and he blinked his eyes. that was pretty amazing. when rob and gary get back to shore, rob is reunited with his
the second level and i was on the main level and i heard someone said get down shots fired and my instinct was to grab the child next to me and i am not letting a kid die. and i grabbed the kid and told the mom hey, let s go and i don t want you hurt and let s go and i got them in the thesears. and there was a gunman and shut down the store and get to safety. i ran while shots were fired from the upper level of sears to my job to so if anybody was hurt and make sure. we had young children in there, because i work at cartoon cuts with the little kids and i ran in there and let them know what happened. and no one anyhknee.