Three come together to save toddler’s life

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio (AP) — A firefighter, a respiratory technician and a man who found a missing 2-year-old boy not breathing and floating face down in a neighborhood pond combined to revive the toddler, authorities said.

The boy wandered away from his aunt’s house Saturday. Neighbor Tim Kraynik, who heard the boy’s mother screaming as she searched, found him in a pond at a nearby house. He rushed him to the home of his next-door neighbor, Parma firefighter Brian Flanagan.

“At that point, my thought was the child was no longer living,” Kraynik said. “He had to have been in there for a while.”

Flanagan compressed the boy’s chest while his wife, Laura, a respiratory technician, performed mouth-to-mouth. Kraynik called 911, and seconds later, the toddler whimpered and cried.

The boy was released from the hospital Sunday and is doing well, said the boy’s father, Mark Anderson.

“I don’t see any coincidence in this,” Anderson said. “I believe God arranged the right people at the right time.”

North Royalton is about 18 miles south of Cleveland.