Jon Zacharkiw, a member of the Unionville High School class of 2003, was one of three deputies who saved the life of a week-old baby named Audrey in Clackamas County, Oregon, on Sept. 30.
Audrey aspirated her milk and stopped breathing while she and her parents were at a shopping mall to get her photo taken. The deputies happened to be outside the mall on a traffic stop when they got the emergency call and raced inside.
"She was blue and technically deceased when I arrived," said Jon. The three performed CPR until the Clackamas paramedics arrived about 2 minutes later.
Audrey was taken to the pediatric intensive care unit, where she has made steady progress. She no longer needs her feeding tube and breathing tube and, though still in the hospital, she has been discharged from the ICU.
On Oct. 7, her parents, Kaylob Harmon and Jessie Siefer, invited the three deputies to visit her in the hospital.
"Kaylob told us he wanted a picture to show Audrey one day of the guys who saved her life," reported Jon. "It was unbelievably heartwarming to be invited back, and amazing to see how far she has progressed since last Sunday."
"No amount of words can explain how thankful we are for the men that made this possible," wrote her father on social media.
Audrey's aunt has set up a GoFundMe page, "Help Baby Audrey," to defray the family's expenses and lost wages.
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