Special-needs student saves boy.Ian Madsen, a special-needs student at Milbank High School in Milbank, South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). , was in the neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. city of Aberdeen on May 13, competing in a bowling tournament. Following the tournament, Ian and friends went swimming in a hotel pool. Suddenly, Ian noticed what seemed like a body floating in the water. As Ian described the incident to reporters from Keloland TV news in Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, city (1990 pop. 100,814), seat of Minnehaha co., SE S.Dak., on the Big Sioux River; settled 1856, inc. as a village 1877, as a city 1883. Settlers abandoned the site in 1862 because of Native American raids, but with the establishment (1865) of Fort : "I didn't want to see a dead kid on my bowling day and so I picked him up." The group's chaperone chaperone /chap·er·one/ (shap´er-on) someone or something that accompanies and oversees another. molecular chaperone , Lyle Hoeke, told reporters: "It was just nuts in there. There were probably 50 to 60 kids swimming around and Ian all of a sudden comes up with this little guy in his arms." The "little guy" was a four-year-old boy who wasn't breathing. An Aberdeen man and an off-duty emergency worker gave the boy CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac and revived him within seconds. Mr. Hoeke told reporters: "Ian was very aware and just sharp.... He knew something was wrong and just picked up the child and set him on the side.... He's a hero in our eyes." |
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