High school football players save lives
Four Hollywood, FL high school football players, along with their coach, are being credited with saving three lives.
Four Hollywood, FL high school football players, along with their coach, are being credited with saving three lives.
The group was driving in central Florida, returning from a football camp, when they came across a horrible car accident at dusk on Sunday.
A married couple, and their two-year-old granddaughter, had crashed into a canal. Their SUV was upside down.
The rescuers fought their way into the SUV, yanked seats aside and took a door off its hinges.
With help from anther passing motorist, the group freed all three victims from the vehicle.
53-year-old Juanita Carillo Bryan was not breathing, however, and her head had been underwater.
Junior football player Jared Maldonado had learned CPR in a health class, and applied it to the unconscious woman.
Maldonado revived her, and Mrs. Bryan is in intensive care at a Fort Myers hospital.
A school assembly is being planned to recognize the heroes.
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