Keith Ezell was on his way to work in Cleveland, Ohio, when he rolled up to a car accident and saved a life. The 36-year-old nurse assistant heard the driver of one of the cars begging for help for his passenger. The young girl had stopped breathing.
Ezell had just recently completed a new CPR class and had a respiratory mask in his backpack. Knowing every second would count, he sprung into action. The dramatic moment was caught on video by a bystander and later shared by Danielle Nicole on Facebook, who wrote, “This is my friend and co-worker Keith B. Ezell who was caught rescuing this woman, and unborn child, after witnessing a car accident on his way to work with minimal assistance. He ROCKS!”
Ezell worked on the young woman for at least 5 minutes, administering CPR and trying to get her to breath. He refused to give up, thinking “I have to get her back. She was turning blue. She had no pulse and I kept thinking she can’t die on me,” Ezell told WKYC.
Finally, EMTs arrived and found a pulse. When he heard, Ezell was greatly relieved. He knew then she had a fighting chance to live. In the video, Ezell gives his friends hugs and shakes some hands before returning to his car and saying “I gotta go to work”.
The young woman’s rescue does get more dramatic as WKYC reported “Here’s a part of the story we wish we didn’t have to tell…It turns out paramedics had to administer narcan for a heroin overdose once they got there.” Note: it is unconfirmed if the woman is pregnant as stated on social media.
Ezell later called the hospital and learned the young girl had survived.
After the video appeared on Facebook, many people have been applauding Ezell’s heroism. One man even shared his own personal story of how Ezell had saved his life. Micael Derrick Snr commented “This amazing man saved my life, I had a cardiac arrest at work, he stepped up and gave me CPR for 20 minutes, until the ambulance turned up, my family and I still to this day can not thank him enough for what he did, blessed I am now recovering well , as in the video he never gave up on her. BRAVO.”
Ezell humbly told the news station that what he did was simply “second nature” after 16 years on the job.
Share this hero’s actions with your friends and family if you believe Ezell deserves a “thank you” for a job well done.
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