A pair of Louisville Metro policemen were making the rounds, driving their beat when they came across a distressed father whose baby wasn’t breathing.
Officers Nicholas Greene and Noah Cole stopped at a gas station on 17th and Broadway West to check in with the owner when a Hispanic man hurriedly entered and called on the officers.
Speaking in Spanish, he told them his baby was in a bad way.
The policemen rushed out with the man to his truck, where the distressed mother handed their 7-day-old daughter, Emma, to Greene.
Baby Emma wasn’t crying and seemed “lifeless” in his arms, Greene later recalled.
He began delivering back blows as Cole keyed up the radio and called for assistance.
Moments later, baby Emma was heard crying, and it seemed the emergency had been diffused. Greene, who said his heartrate was “through the roof,” breathed a huge sigh of relief.
“When the baby started screaming and whining—okay, we’re getting oxygen to the brain,” he recalled. “That was the ultimate sigh of relief.”
She was checked out by EMS and transported to the hospital. From seeing photos of her, the officers said she seems “healthy and happy.”
The department captioned, “We are happy to share that Baby Emma is doing fine! Thank you to Emma’s family for allowing us to share the video!”
Greene, who has a 12-year-old son, says he understands what the parents must have been thinking in that moment: “Save my baby, save my baby,” he recalled.
Both officers remain humble, stating that they don’t feel like they are heroes.
“I just feel like we just did our jobs. We worked together as a team,” said Greene. “The whole squad worked together as a team, and we just did our jobs and what we were trained to do.”
Officer Cole added, telling what it means to serve their community, “We signed up to do it. It’s something we took an oath to do, to serve and protect our community, and it’s just part of the job, just another day on the job.”
