Shocking moment Georgia cops save newborn who wasn’t breathing

Shocking footage showed the moment two officers saved a baby’s life — and proved how vital seconds can be in a life or death situation.

Shocking footage showed the moment two officers saved a baby’s life — and proving how vital seconds can be in a life or death situation.

Two officers from Forest Park, in Georgia, United States were met with a worried and tearful plea for help from a woman who warned an infant wasn’t breathing.

When a person stops breathing, their brain is deprived of oxygen. Just four minutes without breathing can lead to permanent brain damage, with death a high risk.

Watch the awe-inspiring moment in the video player above

Two officers saved a baby who wasn't breathing. Picture: Forest Park Police

Other organs — such as the heart and kidneys — can also be impacted from the lack of oxygen.

Body camera footage showed officers Lieutenant Jimmy Arnold takes the four-week-old into his arms while his partner Corporal Angelic Coley began to perform chest compressions.

Within 10 seconds, the baby starts to cry — a sign the first-aid act was working. The whole thing took just over a minute.

“She’s fine, we’ve got it. She’s moving. She’s OK,” Corporal Coley can be heard reassuring the woman who ran the little girl over to them.

The pair credit their lifesaving efforts to their five-year long partnership and the fact their chief Brandon Criss requires five times the amount of training for incidents like this than the state standard,Fox 5 Atlantareported.

After 10 seconds of compressions, the baby started crying. Picture: Forest Park Police

The pair were praised as heroes. Picture: Forest Park Police

Lieutenant Arnold had recently completed part of his annual 100 hours just six prior to their heroic efforts.

“We were actually having a conversation about working juvenile calls, and I was telling Arnold in my five years of being here I hadn’t worked a call like that, and I’m not ready to” Corporal Coley said.

“And he said, ‘Nobody’s ever ready for that’.”

She said it was an “awesome” feeling knowing that the duo saved the baby’s life — and even more so that just 17 minutes before the call came in she expressed that she didn’t feel ready to tackle it.

Originally published as Shocking moment Georgia cops save newborn who wasn’t breathing