Heroic tech applies CPR training to revive 3-year-old girl after near-drowning

AT&T Customer Services Technician Bobby Click was on a service call, working outside a home in Vidor, Texas, near Beaumont, when he heard a troubling commotion coming from the customer's backyard pool.

A 3-year-old girl had been swimming with her family in their above-ground pool. While the parents were turned away momentarily, the girl failed to come up for air.

When they realized what was happening, they quickly pulled their daughter out of the pool. Click, watching from the distance, saw the unconscious girl turning blue. He quickly rushed over to help.

"Being trained in CPR, I grabbed her, put her on the ground, cleared out her airway and gave her three quick breaths," Click said. "I felt movement in her body, which told me that she had a pulse so I could then begin doing the rescue breathing on her."

Click repositioned the unconscious girl and began performing CPR. "Once I started doing it, the basics came right into my head from the training AT&T requires. We have to get recertified every three years."

He performed three rounds of CPR before the child started breathing on her own. Soon, the color returned to the child's face.

"It seemed like an eternity before she started crying," he said. "We all just wanted to hear her cry."
Once the ambulance arrived, Click became overwhelmed with emotion.

"I don't want to be made out to be anything extraordinary - I'm just an ordinary guy," he said. "I'm thankful to God that he gave that little girl back to them, and happy I could be just a small part of that."

Click's area manager, Larry Easley, couldn't be more proud of his employee. "In a service industry, everyone working there feels the need to serve other people. Bobby not only felt the need to serve, but had the courage to act."

Click, a 34-year veteran whose father is an AT&T retiree and brother is also an AT&T employee, said: "I don't consider myself a hero, just someone who did what he was trained to do in that situation. I am thankful I had the training and glad I was there to help."

Interview with tech Bobby Click: http://www.kbmt12.com/news/local/49460132.html