(people.com) – A sheriff’s officer happily reunited with a girl he saved just hours earlier as she celebrated her fourth birthday at a local pool in Panama City, Florida.
Jeff Haire was with his family at Frank Brown Park on May 28, when he saw a man carrying Davie’onna — who seemed “lifeless” — out of the pool, according to Today.
Haire, a corporal with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, knew it was serious when he tried to find her pulse as she lay on the pool deck.
He was able to find a heartbeat after performing multiple rounds of CPR and was surprised that she didn’t suffer any brain damage from the incident.
“I felt her heart rate go from literally 0 to about 100 — just like that,” said Haire, who carried the little girl in his arms to an ambulance.
