A Chartres police officer saves a child from drowning in Loire-Atlantique

The seaside resort of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique) was the scene of a large-scale rescue, Saturday, June 5, around 4 p.m.

A police officer from the Chartres police station was one of the key players in the rescue of a child: “I am from there and my family lives there. I know the area well. I was walking on the beach with my wife, brother and sister-in-law when I heard screams coming from the ocean. ”

An efficient rescue chain

Four sisters, young children, were visibly panicked. Still according to the police officer, their parents were nearby. The first aid station only opening in the summer, the couple seemed distraught in front of the 5-year-old girl who was lying halfway in the waves, on the ground.

The Chartreuse policeman rushed forward. With his brother, they brought the victim back to the sand, out of the waves: “My wife, a police officer, called on the 18th to give information on what was happening and to indicate the precise place on the beach. A key information for that help arrives quickly without looking. “

Breaths

The 40-year-old observed the victim intently: “She was livid. Eyes glassy. She was no longer breathing and was unconscious. I looked into her mouth. There was nothing obstructing her. So I started. breaths. “

The child quickly “expelled a lot of water”. It was put on its side, in the lateral safety position. Two women, a firefighter and a doctor, who were on the beach, then intervened, adds the policeman from Chartres.

He was then responsible, with two gendarmes, to remove the curious and to create a security perimeter in order to facilitate the landing of a helicopter from Samu. At 6 p.m., the minor was evacuated to the Nantes hospital center. She survived her drowning.

Unlike two people who died, drowned, that same weekend, in Loire-Atlantique.

Thierry delaunay

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