Arizona deputies save choking 2-week-old baby in roadside rescue after parents' emergency call

Deputies successful Arizona saved a 2-week-old babe who was choking aft the infant’s frantic parents made a hopeless 911 telephone from a road, authorities said Friday.

The parents called 911 astir 3:30 p.m. connected Nov. 10 arsenic they drove toward I-17 successful Yavapai County to find assistance aft their newborn babe began struggling to breathe, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said.

Responding deputies raced to find their car, yet locating it, astatine which constituent bodycam footage shows them moving toward the conveyance arsenic the begetter rushed retired holding the baby.

The begetter told deputies helium had been performing babe CPR, backmost blows and sternum rubs for astir 15 minutes. He said helium got the kid to outcry briefly, but noted that the babe was inactive "breathing raggedly."

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A lawman instantly took the babe and began lifesaving attraction successful Yavapai County, Arizona, connected Nov. 10, 2025. (Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office)

Video shows a lawman instantly taking the babe and opening lifesaving care. After tiny thorax compressions, different lawman advised turning the babe over. The lawman past delivered steadfast backmost slaps, clearing saliva from the baby’s airway and prompting him to cry.

A lawman performed tiny thorax compressions and steadfast backmost slaps to wide saliva from the infant's airway. (Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office)

For respective tense minutes, the babe repeatedly went limp and stopped crying, forcing the lawman to proceed stimulation to support him breathing until firefighters and paramedics from the Mayer Fire Department arrived, the sheriff's bureau said.

After the babe began to cry, archetypal responders took the babe to a children's hospital. (Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office)

The babe was rushed to a infirmary successful Prescott Valley for oxygen attraction and aboriginal transferred to Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Authorities aboriginal confirmed the babe has afloat recovered and is backmost home.

The infant's parents aboriginal told the sheriff's bureau that the kid has made a afloat betterment and is doing well. (Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office)

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Sheriff David Rhodes praised the response, calling it each parent’s worst nightmare.

"This is the benignant of telephone each genitor dreads. Our deputies’ speedy thinking, training, and teamwork made each the difference," Rhodes said. "We are incredibly relieved that the babe is doing good astatine home."

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Officials said the incidental underscores the value of CPR grooming for adults, children and infants, noting that speedy enactment tin mean the quality betwixt beingness and death.