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RICHBORO, Pennsylvania -- A Taco Bell manager successful Richboro, Pennsylvania is being hailed arsenic a leader aft she sprang into enactment to prevention a baby's life.
Natasha Long said she had conscionable travel from picking up a medicine astatine a section pharmacy with her 11-month-old son, Myles, erstwhile she decided to halt astatine Taco Bell connected Saturday to get immoderate food.
When she pulled into the drive-thru, Long said she heard babe Myles struggling to breathe, truthful she instantly got retired of the conveyance to cheque connected him.
"I ran retired of the car and ran astir and opened the car door," said Long. "I pulled him retired and helium turned wholly bluish and was lifeless. At that constituent I conscionable wholly blacked out. I didn't cognize what to do."
Long says she started to shriek successful a panic. Her cries for assistance were heard by Taco Bell Manager Becky Arbaugh, who dropped everything she was doing to assistance erstwhile she realized however dire the concern was.
"I threw my headset. I ran outside," said Arbaugh. "I took the babe and I started to bash thorax compressions connected the babe and past helium yet started to breathe."
Long said it was arsenic if a guardian angel had appeared retired of obscurity to assistance Myles commencement breathing again.
She said Arbaugh comforted her and directed her connected what to bash arsenic they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
Arbaugh, who is simply a parent of two, said she is nary guardian angel. However, she said she was capable to enactment calm passim due to the fact that 1 of her daughters had a akin acquisition years ago.
She said that incidental prepared her for a situation similar the 1 that fell successful her lap.
"When my kids were little, my girl had a akin incident, truthful I knew what she was feeling," said Arbaugh. "I knew if I kept her calm and I stayed calm, determination was nary thought successful my caput that the babe wasn't going to respire again."
Baby Myles did commencement breathing and was taken to an country infirmary for treatment.
It is unclear what caused his trouble breathing.
The precise adjacent day, Long said she made definite to telephone Taco Bell truthful she could speech to Arbaugh and archer her however overmuch she appreciated her actions.
"We couldn't beryllium much grateful to Becky," said Long. "She saved my son's life."
11-month-old Myles
Though if you inquire Arbaugh, she'll archer you she's nary hero. She said she did what anyone would person done successful that situation.
"I conscionable thought of myself arsenic a ma with different ma that needed help," Arbaugh said.
Long and Arbaugh said they person been successful interaction regular since Saturday, with Arbaugh adjacent offering to beryllium successful the infirmary with babe Myles truthful his parents tin get a small clip to themselves.
Both said it was the opening of a enslaved that volition withstand the trial of time.
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