Queensbury, N.Y. — When she was pulled from the lazy river inside an Upstate New York water park last weekend, the 5-year-old girl wasn’t breathing, according to reports.
Stacy Brayton, a paramedic, was visiting the Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark in Queensbury with her young son on Saturday when she saw people carry a child from the Tak-It-Eesi-Creek area, WNYT NewsChannel 13 reported. Although she wasn’t on duty, she rushed to help.
When they could not find a pulse, Brayton told NewsChannel 13 she and others — including the waterpark’s lifeguard and EMT team — started to give the child CPR. After about five minutes worth of compressions, she said the girl started to breathe on her own.
“By the time the ambulance got there, she was conscious and crying,” Brayton, who works for Medcor, told NewsChannel 13. “So then when everybody came in, I just said to them, ‘she’s breathing, she’s breathing,’ because that’s the first thing you want to hear as a first responder.”
The child from Hudson was airlifted by LifeNet to an Albany hospital, where the Warren County Sheriff’s Office reported she is recovering, according to the Hudson Valley Post.
The Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark is on the edge of the Adirondacks at 89 Six Flags Drive in Queensbury, Warren County.