North Carolina dad saves 2-year-old daughter from drowning thanks to CPR on Memorial Day weekend

GASTONIA, N.C. -- A 2-year-old miss is successful bully wellness acknowledgment to the speedy actions of her household aft she stopped breathing portion swimming connected Memorial Day weekend.

Surveillance footage released by Gastonia Police Department shows the girl's begetter jumping successful the excavation and instantly starting CPR connected his daughter.

"My 10-year-old girl is screaming retired my youngest daughter's name. Mila! And she conscionable screamed it truly loud. I looked and turned astir and saw my 2-year-old girl floating," said Mila's dad.

Her parent watched successful fearfulness arsenic her kid laic lifeless.

"I felt hopeless. I conscionable felt wholly hopeless, similar my babe is dead. How americium I going to unrecorded my beingness with my babe being gone," said Mila's mother.

Mila's begetter realized her tummy was filled with aerial and tried to assistance her truthful helium could merchandise that aerial by compressing her back. When helium did truthful she was capable to get his girl to commencement breathing again.

She was taken to the hospital, but is present successful bully health.

According to police, 1 survey showed that 82 retired of 90 radical who got CPR from a bystander aft being removed from the h2o survived with a 91% endurance rate.

Now Mila's parents are stressing the value of knowing the life-saving technique.