When firefighter Richard Healy found 22-month-old Lorren Frese, she was floating in a pond, face-down.
“Legally, she was dead,” Healy says. Weeks ago, after what happened to their little one, no one would expect the Frese family to be celebrating. But, in what is a truly amazing turn of events, Lorren survived and her family, as well as the emergency responders who saved her, regard it as a miracle.
The ordeal was nothing less than harrowing. In the video below, you can hear the bone-chilling 911 call as Lorren's mother, Julia, believes she is witnessing her daughter's death.
“My mom has a big bay window and my stepdad was pulling her out of the pond,” Julia told KRQE. “There was no life in her… I didn’t even know how to cry for hours afterwards. I couldn’t cry. I know that sounds awful as a mother but I couldn’t. I just stood there screaming her name, pressing my fingers into my forehead.”
The dispatcher, Ian Davis talked the family through CPR. Moments later, firefighters arrived but it seemed Lorren was gone. “We checked for a pulse. There was no pulse, no breathing,” said Healy. “We have what we call a look of death and when we see that it’s kind of hopeless…" But the emergency responders never gave up. For 13 days, Lorren was on life support; doctors thought if Lorren survived she would be brain dead, but, incredibly, on the 16th day she was released from the hospital. Today, she's a happy, healthy, bubbly little girl.
See Lorren's miraculous survival below and please SHARE to thank the brave men and women who saved her!
