In Oise, a mother called the emergency services because her two-month-old baby had stopped breathing. She finally managed to revive him thanks to the coolness of a firefighter who gave her valuable advice over the phone.
They both showed incredible composure. This Thursday, March 2, the firefighters of Oise broadcast on social networks a distress call dating back several months. On this one we can hear a mother, panicked, contacting the emergency services for her baby who is visibly in danger. “Good morning sir, it’s my two-month-old baby boy who is all blue. He’s not breathing, he’s all blue…“can we hear the woman, frightened.
At the other end of the line is a firefighter from the Beauvais call center (Oise). Calmly, the latter will then give advice and guide the mother while waiting for help to arrive. “We will come and blow and cover the nose and the mouth with your mouth“, he explains. Unfortunately the method does not work and the firefighter then decides to describe to the woman how to carry out a heart massage.
“That’s it, he opens his eyes”
“You will imagine a line between her two small nipples, on this line, you are going to come and put two fingers on the rib cage. The moment I’m gonna tell you top, you’re gonna press chest, to the table“, he explains. The mother therefore starts the cardiac massage on the tempo of the firefighter, and finally, at the 14th top, she announces very good news to her interlocutor. ” That’s it ! That’s it, he opens his eyes“, exclaims the woman after 2 minutes 45 minutes of intense stress. With our colleagues from TF1, the room manager at Codis de l’Oise wanted to salute “the professionalism of the operator”but also “the calm of the mothertwo factors that were decisive in the outcome of this incident, which fortunately ended well.