Eversource Workers Use CPR Training To Save Baby's Life

NORFOLK (CBS) – Two Eversource workers helped save a baby's life in Norfolk Wednesday.

Tony Depina and Chuck Dwyer were driving to a job site around 9 a.m. when they saw a young mother in her front yard with an 11-month-old baby girl that wasn't breathing.

They stopped and Depina started CPR on the little girl, who had nearly drowned in a bathtub.

"As I was doing the compressions, she started to throw up a little bit of water and I just turned her on her side and held her head back and just kept doing CPR," he told WBZ-TV.

"We get trained in CPR once a year and Tony was right on point, did everything just right. I stood right next to him, I really didn't have to do much," Dwyer said.

The chest compressions forced the water from the baby's lungs and she started breathing.

"I don't feel like a hero. My worst fear was that baby dying while I was there. So I was determined to do whatever I can to keep her alive," Depina said.

Paramedics arrived a short time later and got the mother and her baby into an ambulance.

"We knew she was going to be alright and the mom was finally starting to calm down a little. That's when I started shaking, that when we were nervous, because you're not nervous while you're doing it," Dwyer said.

Firefighters say the baby is likely alive because the Eversource workers were trained in CPR.

"National studies clearly show that the sooner that CPR is initiated, the greater the chances for outcome to be more positive," Norfolk Fire Chief Cole Bushnell told WBZ.

The baby was taken to Boston Children's Hospital for observation.

Depina told WBZ he did not take his normal route to the construction site Wednesday, instead taking a different route, and putting him in a spot to save the child's life.

He planned to buy a lottery scratch ticket after work and not scratch it until he's having a bad day.