A Winnipeg woman is being commended for her courage after helping save a father and child from the Red River near St. Johns Park.<\/p>\n
On August 24, around 7 p.m., Winnipeg Police Service officers responded to a report that a child had fallen into the river.<\/p>\n
According to police, a witness saw the child enter the water, followed by the parent attempting to rescue the child.<\/p>\n
The witness then jumped into the river to help both of them.<\/p>\n
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She pulled the father from the water first, then immediately swam back to the child. The woman swam backward toward shore while holding the unconscious child against her chest.<\/p>\n
She began performing life-saving measures while still in the water and continued providing emergency first aid after reaching shore.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, the bystander was performing emergency first aid on the unconscious child. Officers took over care, and the child was transported to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The child was later stabilized and is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Police Service commended the bystander’s courage and selflessness, crediting her actions with helping save the lives of two complete strangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Winnipeg woman is being commended for her courage after helping save a father and child from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-193111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}