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Troopers, Tow Truck Driver Save Five People On Highway
Tweet Everyday heroes. That’s what a state patrol captain is calling two young troopers.  He says they saved the lives of five people last week, including three young children. As he rolled up to routine slide-in near Black River Falls, trooper Craig Larson had no idea what lay in store for him in the next hour. No one was hurt, three little boys were even happily playing in the backseat. “Th More..ey had their stockings, they were coming from Christmas,” Larson says. But, his dash cam captured the moment when things could have turned deadly. With the family's car just about out of the ditch, a tow-truck driver noticed something was very wrong. Larson ran back to the car. “I noticed in the back seat that those kids that were in there playing and talking earlier were laying on the backseat and the passenger in the passenger seat had her head up against the window and nobody was moving or talking,” Larson says. The two year veteran says this is where his training kicked in. He got the two, three and four-year-old boys away from the carbon monoxide filled car. “I started doing CPR on two of them, doing chest compressions on two of them. I gave them breaths and once they started crying, I knew they were breathing and doing alright and I moved on to the next one,” Larson says. The tow truck driver, Pat Brauner from Black River Falls, got the passenger out and also started CPR. The boys' mom was semi-conscious and stuck in the driver's seat until trooper Richard Aguilar got to the scene. “I told her to relax, take deep breaths, we're here to help, her kids were fine and she eventually started breath easier,” Aguilar says. One by one the victims were taken to awaiting ambulances. The troopers say they simply did their job; their captain saying what they wouldn't. “Certainly anybody that's seeing this story has got to think that this is one of the top stories, news stories of 2010 at least I think so,” says Captain Jeffrey Frenette, command...
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Date Found: January 01, 2011
Date Produced: January 01, 2011
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