MIDDLESEX COUNTY — During the heavy nighttime rain from the Sept. 1, 2021 remnants of Hurricane Ida, Iselin Fire District 11 Chief Ryan Malheiro focused on the small child’s hand in the four feet of flood water on Carson Drive as soon as the ladder truck’s lights shone.
Malheiro went out about 30 to 40 feet to grab the unresponsive child.
“When I jumped out of the truck I didn’t even think — I just kept going because I was listening to him (the child’s father), but when the light turned, that’s when I saw her to the right and I started going. Everything was quick,” he said.
After getting the young girl out of the water, Maheiro was about to start CPR when all the water rushed out of the child. The child’s father came running over and although Malheiro instructed him to wait for emergency medical personnel to arrive, he ran to the car and took his daughter to the hospital to be checked out.
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