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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two-year-old Julian is backmost to his playful aforesaid aft a Madera County sheriff's lawman saved his beingness past month.
Julian's ma was waking him up from a nap connected the evening of March 1st erstwhile she noticed thing was off.
"When she went to the room, helium was look down successful the bed," his father, Chad David Fugate, recalled.
"She said it sounded similar his breathing was precise labored. She picked him up and helium was truly blue."
The household called 911 close away, and Deputy Jessica Martinez arrived wrong minutes.
"I instantly grabbed the AED adjacent earlier entering the house, and erstwhile I entered, dada was performing CPR," Deputy Martinez said.
Fugate continued to bash CPR and prayed.
"There were conscionable truthful galore things I wanted to accidental successful that moment. If he's going to go, instrumentality maine instead. That's my child. He's going to unrecorded a agelong life. He's the 1 that's expected to hide me; I'm not expected to hide him," Fugate said done tears.
He says Julian regained his pulse and began to respire aft Deputy Martinez delivered 2 shocks from the defibrillator.
"I judge this instrumentality close present is what yet allowed america to prevention his life," Deputy Martinez said with her AED.
The young subsister was past taken to the infirmary and treated for astir a week. During that time, helium got a sojourn from his hero.
"Just seeing that small lad and knowing that what I did helped his family, words can't explicit what I'm feeling," Deputy Martinez said.
Martinez was honored Tuesday with a proclamation from the region committee of supervisors for her lifesaving efforts.
Julian's household says she besides has their eternal gratitude.
"She's our guardian angel placed upon america for her reason," Fugate said.
Julian's household says doctors discovered helium had a seizure that lasted 45 minutes that scary evening and has been diagnosed with epilepsy.
They accidental helium is present connected medicine and backmost to his mean self.
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