CHP Officer Credited With Saving Girl’s Life
A California Highway Patrol officer was credited Thursday with reviving a 2-year-old girl who stopped breathing while riding a Greyhound bus bound for Los Angeles.
The driver pulled over on the westbound Pomona Freeway and a passenger flagged down the officer after Briana Ragland had an apparent seizure, authorities said.
The girl, traveling with her mother from Georgia, had a high fever that may have caused the seizure, police said.
When Officer Todd Overzet tilted the child’s head to begin cardiopulmonary resuscitation, she resumed breathing, said Officer Gary Montanez, a CHP spokesman.
Overzet, an eight-year veteran, was trained as an emergency medical technician as part of his CHP schooling, Montanez said.
“Had somebody not opened the airway, who’s to say what would have happened,” he said.
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