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Meet Detective Michael Greaney.
Greaney was driving to work in rush hour traffic when he saw a black SUV speeding across the emergency shoulder lane.
He pulled the car over and the father said his child was suffocating.
Granny took immediate action and cleared her throat and got the girl breathing again.
what a miracle!
See here:
NEW: NYPD detective saves the life of a child who suffocated while driving to work in rush hour traffic.
Detective First Class Michael Greaney was in traffic when he saw a black SUV speeding across the emergency shoulder lane.
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NEW: NYPD detective saves the life of a child who suffocated while driving to work in rush hour traffic.
Detective First Class Michael Greaney was in traffic when he saw a black SUV speeding across the emergency shoulder lane.
Granny turned on the lights of her unmarked car and stopped the BMW to see what was happening.
The terrified father said, “My child is suffocating.”
Granny immediately sprang into action, pulling the girl out of the car and hitting her on the back, clearing her throat and allowing her to breathe again.
Greaney has worked for the NYPD for 17 years. According to the father, who spoke to the New York Post, the child is doing well.
hero!
Detective Greaney was later interviewed on News Nation:
Here are more details on the heroic rescue NY Post,
Date. First Grade Michael Greaney, 40 — a father of two — was driving to work at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday when he saw a BMW speeding along the Bronx River Parkway, he told The Post Friday.
,I followed the vehicle, turned on my lights,, he said. ,[The dad] Rolled down his window and yelled, ‘My baby is suffocating!'”
The dashing policeman grabbed an 8-month-old girl from her car seat, turned her over and hit her a dozen times on the back “until something crumbled.”
“I didn’t see or feel anything coming out, but he coughed, like he was relieved,” said Greaney, who works in the office of the chief of detectives.
“She let out a little cry, so obviously we know that if you’re talking or crying, you’re not suffocating. So that [was] A good sign,” he said.
Greaney – who has a 3-year-old and a 1-1/2-year-old – remained calm in the moment but said he understood how terrified the fellow father would have been.
,[There are] “Definitely all kinds of emotions, nervousness, shock, fear and everything,” he said.
“So I’m glad I was able to free her from those feelings, and I’m glad she’s going to be here for Christmas.”
Once the baby was breathing again, a nurse came to help, he said.
“He said, ‘She’s all right. She’s breathing. You can give her back to dad,'” Greaney recalled.
“He just said, ‘Thank you,’ and I told him to go home and watch a YouTube video on how to do the Heimlich, so that if it happens again, he can clear it himself,” he said.
“I put him back in the car seat, and I took off,” said Greaney — who later learned that his dramatic footage of saving the child’s life had gone viral.
He said, “I told a few people. I didn’t think it would go this way, not at all.”
Greaney said he later spoke to the girl’s father, who told him she was fine.
“I feel good…that I saved her,” he said, “but the fact that it was caught on camera is the only part that’s rare.”