Mother, Police Officers, Call Two Strangers Who Saved Her Daughter's Life "Angels"
Before she could thank the strangers, they disappeared.
(Naples, Florida)—The first weekend of August, toddler Meagan Durocher fell into a pool during a party for her uncle, Naples Police Officer Steve Walden. Meagan's mother, Kathlene, told Naples Daily News that she thinks two strangers who helped save her daughter's life were angels. According to a WorldNetDaily report, Meagan's body was retrieved from the pool after she had been underwater for more than a minute.
"I saw [her] within a foot of me," said Officer Walden. "That child was dead....purple (with) swelled eyes and swelled black lips."
Off-duty Officer Benjamin Vasquez, who performed CPR on Meagan, was also at the party. "She was purple as a grape," he said, noting she did not have a pulse, was not breathing and did not respond to the CPR.
Having difficulty performing CPR on a child, Vasquez yelled for help. Immediately a man and a woman—total strangers to the group—appeared. The man reportedly breathed for Meagan while the woman took her pulse for about three minutes until the girl began breathing on her own and spitting up water.
Said Meagan's mother: "I was hysterical, and someone came up to me and said 'Look at her, she's up.'" She said that before she could thank the strangers for saving her daughter's life, "they had disappeared."
"They were complete strangers to me," she told Naples Daily News. "I don't know who it was. I want to meet them because they saved the life of my beautiful, almost 2-year-old baby."
