Surveillance video shows 4-year-old, non-verbal Xavier Rigney getting inside the locked gated pool at his apartment complex and into the water. Neighbor 12-year-old Maddox Westerhaus witnessed the incident and went to get his father, Tom, who jumped the fence, rescued the young boy from the water and started CPR to save his life.
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It's actually a miracle that kid didn't die. CPR rarely revives by itself. It usually only assists in breathing until the paramedics arrive.
Right place at the right time! This is why everyone should know CPR. Hero for sure 💕
Can’t believe he interfered with natural selection like that.
What a save🫶🏻
For him to get out of the apartment and to the pool took some time. The mother had not checked for him at all. Neglect 🤨
POOL FENCE NOT ONLY FOR CHILDREN BUT ADULTS WHO CANNOT SWIM. THIS SHOULD BE STANDARD ACROSS WORLD. HOW MANY MORD SENSELESS TRAGEDIES DOES IT TAKE. WAKE UP WORLD BEFORE IT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU.
We salute you Sir.
…and is given life with no parole for trespassing
Any parent who owns a pool and doesn’t teach their toddler to swim is a horrid parent.
good job parents …..
😢😢😢😢😢😢
Glad he was saved. He needs a haircut though
I was drowning on the deep pool and then my mom save me and put me on the big little pool
More life more love more blessings ❤️🔥 🙌🏾
Careful the Democrats will ban pools
God bless that dad and his son 🙏
They friends with Benefits but thankful that kid safe
Thank you, HERO 👍❤🥲
tears of joy
That was hard to watch….so glad for the father/son team that saved his life.
My daughter has non verbal autism. She is the exact same with water. We had to search for houses with no bodies of water to give us peace of mind.
subhannallah… why so many american like own pool… do they want to metaporh become crocodile?
Where was this kids parents????
Thats a notch to heaven for thus man for saving that lit boy god bless u.
Davido’s son wasn’t this lucky😢
oooohhhhh this had my crying
Teach him how to swim
Guys like this go relatively unnoticed, but assclowns like tom cruise and kyrie Irving are famous. Sad
He’s a hero
The daughter did help save the boy if she wouldn't of alerted the parents it would of been too late the little grill is ahero to and she gets no credit for this
I was saved from drowning as a kid too, I was about 6-7 years old and following my older friend (age 9), but then I started to drown in the public pool.. Her dad saved me