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Jun 22, 2009 3:19 pm US/Mountain

Mother & Young Son Save Little Girl From Drowning

Reporting
Howard Nathan
LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) ― A 5-year-old is alive thanks to a quick-acting mother and her little boy.

Mariah Stine is home after recovering at Denver Health Medical Center Sunday from nearly drowning. The Lakewood girl was in her apartment's swimming pool when the little boy shouted to his mom for help.

"She was blue. She wasn't breathing and she just looked really lifeless," said Ashley Hollon, Mariah's mother.

Quinn Carmody Green, 4, was playing with Mariah and shouted to his mother, Sarah Carmody, that something was wrong.

"She was face down on the bottom of the pool, motionless, and when I picked her up, she was limp," Carmody said. "Her lips were blue, her face was starting to turn blue. I carried her up the steps, screamed 'I need help, I need help,' and started CPR."

After several attempts at CPR, Carmody, from Morrison, was able to revive Mariah.

Carmody and her son were visiting a relative.

"I felt like I had lost my child in just seconds," Hollon said.

It was the first time Carmody had ever performed CPR. She learned it when she was about 12 years old in the Girl Scouts.

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