MIAMI – The quick actions of a Miami-Dade public school resource officer are credited with saving a South Florida’s teachers life.
Tangela McBride is grateful to be alive after passing out in her classroom at Pine View Elementary.
After hearing a call for help over his security radio, Officer Nicholas Diaz ran to the classroom and sprang into action. After noticing a faint pulse he began life-saving measures.
“I dropped down, got on my knee and gave her a sternum rub to see if she would come back because she was unconscious but she was breathing. When I applied the sternum rub to her, she had stopped breathing, so at that point, I ended up having to start doing CPR,” said Diaz.
McBride was told she had flatlined seven times, but Diaz was persistent.
“I’m like, ‘Oh, my ribs were cracked,’ and the doctor told me, ‘Well if they don’t crack your ribs, they didn’t do it right’. He kept trying, he didn’t give up, he could’ve easily given up but he didn’t,” said McBride.