Louisiana DWF Agents Assist with Saving Three Year Old Boy’s Life

By Vanessa Torres

Louisiana -(Ammoland.com)- Authorities saved a three year old boy from drowning in a swimming pool at a residence on the Amite River Diversion Canal in Livingston Parish on May 10.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents Lt. Louis Burnett and Senior Agent Michael Marques Jr. were on vessel patrol around 5 p.m. on the Diversion Canal when they were flagged down by a woman from a dock near her residence on Home Port Road. The woman told them that a three year old boy was found face down in her pool a few minutes ago.

Senior Agent Marques Jr. raced to the pool about 25 yards from the dock and found the child lying on the ground next to the pool not breathing. Marques Jr. put his hand on the child’s chest and felt the heart beating. He then cleared the airway of the child by performing the head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver. The child then let out a gasp of air that prompted Marques Jr. to …read more

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