A Mendocino County firefighter was one of two people who helped revive a child with CPR Friday following a crash on Highway 101, the California Highway Patrol reported.
According to the CHP, a 47-year-old Garberville man was heading north on Hwy. 101 around 4:40 p.m. Dec. 13 in the heavy rain when, at Spy Rock Road north of Laytonville, the Toyota 4-Runner he was driving “began to hydroplane and ran off the roadway. The 4-Runner drove up the embankment and overturned, landing on its roof.”
The 4-Runner then “slid into the southbound lane,” directly into the path of a Toyota RAV4 being driven by a 56-year-old Philo man. The two vehicles collided, then “both went down the embankment into Rattlesnake Creek, (where they landed in the water) upside down and were nearly submerged as the creek continued to rise due to the heavy rainfall.”
Shortly after the crash, the CHP reports that “Barrett Thomas and Abram Hill (an off-duty volunteer firefighter with Leggett Valley Fire and Rescue and Piercy Volunteer Fire Department)” were both driving in separate vehicles “through the area when they noticed vehicle debris in the roadway,” and both men pulled over and checked down the embankment.
The CHP reports that Thomas pulled the driver of the RAV4 “and his son to safety out of the creek and noticed (the 4Runner) downstream. Hill then jumped from the creek bank onto the upside-down vehicle, just as two (of the driver’s) children emerged from the vehicle.”
As Hill helped the children to the creek bank, the driver emerged from the 4Runner “with his four-year-old child.” As Hill helped them up to the side of the highway, “Hill recognized the child was not breathing and did not have a pulse,” and the men began performing CPR on the child.
“Not long after starting CPR, the four-year-old’s pulse returned and shortly after, the (child) was breathing without assistance,” the CHP reports, adding that the child was “transported to Howard Memorial Medical Center and then to UC Davis Medical Center, and is expected to make a full recovery.”
As for the remaining occupants of both vehicles, the CHP describes them as receiving “minor injuries from the crash.”
Garberville CHP Office added that it is “extremely grateful for the quick actions of Abram Hill and Barrett Thomas, (who performed) CPR in the pouring rain, ultimately saving the life of a four-year-old child.”
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