March 16--Two Schaumburg officers are credited with saving the life of a girl who had stopped breathing.
The girl's grandmother had called 911 from the side of Higgins Road on Thursday evening after realizing the girl was in distress in her car seat. When Officer Bryan Poradzisz arrived, he found the 19-month-old girl unresponsive and apparently not breathing, her lips turning blue, according to a police news released issued Tuesday.
Poradzisz administered CPR, and another officer who arrived just after him, Kevin O'Connor, helped to clear her airway with a finger sweep.
Almost immediately, the girl began breathing on her own and regained consciousness, police said, and the officers remained with her until paramedics arrived. She appeared to have fully recovered.
The girl and her grandmother, who were not identified, had been on their way back to Chicago after spending the day in Schaumburg.
This is the second time within a matter of days that Schaumburg officers have been lauded for their heroics.
On March 8, an unidentified off-duty Schaumburg officer stopped an armed robbery in progress. The department said he was leaving a local gym when he saw a male teenager armed with a knife and brass knuckles demanding money from another male. The officer wrestled the offender to the ground and restrained him with the help of two onlookers until on-duty officers arrived, police said.
