Rams DC reunites with three-year-old after heroic, life-saving act
Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris recently reunited with the three-year-old boy he helped save from drowning on Memorial Day in Las Vegas.
Nearly two weeks ago, Joe and Kelseigh Stanley were at the pool at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas when their seven-year-old son alerted them that their other son, three-year-old Wyatt, was underwater. When Joe went to pick Wyatt up out of the water, the toddler was "face down, nose to the pool."
Morris told "Good Morning America" on Friday that his children were in the pool at the time, and he heard a "scream," before he and another stranger -- Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Andrew Oleksyn -- jumped into action.
"It's truly a miracle when I try to wrap my mind around everything that happened," Kelseigh said, per ABC News.
Morris told "Good Morning America" that while Oleksyn began chest compressions and feeling for a pulse, he located the automated external defibrillator (AED) machine. The machine is used in "emergency situations to analyze the heart's rhythm and, if necessary, deliver an electric shock to reestablish effective rhythm when someone experiences sudden cardiac arrest" according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The 46-year-old coordinator told "Good Morning America" that following Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest in early January, the Rams received training on how to use some emergency devices, like an AED.
A former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons, Morris is entering his third season as the defensive coordinator in Los Angeles.
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