Local News in Brief : Huntington Beach : Calm Dispatcher Helps Women Save Baby
A baby boy found unconscious at the bottom of a Jacuzzi was revived, thanks to Huntington Beach fire dispatcher Dennis Kidd’s quick thinking and calm voice, police said Friday.
Kidd, who answered a 911 call shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday, told Lassie Mayfield, the grandmother of 1-year-old Travis Scott, how to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. She relayed the instructions to her daughter, Shelly Scott.
Mayfield said that the baby had been playing in the back yard of her daughter’s Huntington Beach home and fell into the Jacuzzi. She said she thought he had been underwater about a minute.
“I can not say enough wonderful things about that man,” Mayfield said of Kidd.
When Huntington Beach fire paramedics Jacques Pelletier and David McBride arrived at the home, about 3 or 4 minutes later, the baby was breathing and his color had improved.
The baby was taken to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, and doctors there said he was fine.
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