Incredible moment San Diego cop saved life of baby who stopped breathing

A San Diego police officer heroically saved the life of a one-year-old child who stopped breathing on Tuesday.

Authorities received a panicked call about a one-year-old baby who couldn’t breathe in Point Loma around 1:35 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.

The panicked woman first received instructions from 911 dispatchers on how to resuscitate the non-breathing child, but Officer Warner of the San Diego Police Department arrived on the scene shortly afterwards.

Warner, who had been patrolling the area, arrived at the horrifying scene and acted quickly to get the breathless baby breathing again.

“Any death call is generally always intense. But when you add the youthful element to it, you kind of get going,” Warner said.

Footage of the busy scene captured by an onlooker shows Officer Warner standing outside the home on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, holding the shirtless child to his chest as his gloved hands stroke and rub the child’s back.

Outside the home, concerned people can be seen crowding around the Warner and the distressed child before emergency medical services arrive.

As the ambulance arrives at the house, Warner can be seen carrying the child from the front yard to the back of the ambulance.

Footage of the busy scene captured by an onlooker shows Officer Warner standing outside the home on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard holding the shirtless child to his chest as his gloved hands stroke and rub the child’s back

Warner credited the dispatcher for providing life-saving CPR instructions as he and the others present at the Southern California home helped save the sick child.

“The baby was conscious, awake, breathing and crying,” Warner said after the struggling child was sent to a nearby hospital for further medical treatment.

It remains unclear what exactly happened to the child at this time, but Warner noted that the child suffers from underlying health conditions.

“From what I heard, he has some underlying medical issues. I’m not 100 percent sure what they were, I was just taking care of him,” Warner told the audience of the recording.

“You got here very quickly, you went in… well done,” said the spectator. ‘Happy new year! Hopefully this is one of the most exciting things to happen today and I hope everyone stays safe.”

A similar event occurred last year when a heroic police officer resuscitated a baby in the middle of the highway after his mother sped past a patrol car on the way to the hospital.

Officer Brendan Fraser was on duty in Warren, Michigan, in September 2023 when he saw a speeding blue Camaro pass his patrol car.

As the ambulance arrives at the house, Officer Warner can be seen carrying the child from the front yard to the back of the ambulance.

After pulling the vehicle over, Fraser quickly realized the family in the car was having an emergency and rushed to their aid.

Footage was captured of the moment he managed to get their 18-month-old son breathing again after the choking baby turned blue on the lips.

In the footage, the child’s mother can be heard screaming: “Help, help, we have a dying baby here.”

Fraser springs into action and immediately makes his way to the car and is seen reaching in to help the family.

You hear him repeatedly ask, ‘What do you mean? What do you mean?’

The family in the car can be heard pleading to let them pass on the way to the hospital

A woman tells Fraser, “We took him to the hospital. They said he had COVID, but then all of a sudden he started having a seizure.”

One parent can be heard shouting, “No, please don’t take him,” before Fraser says, “I’m not going to take him.”

Dashcam footage from his patrol car showed Fraser repeatedly patting the child on the back and trying to dislodge what was choking the baby.

While holding the baby in one hand, Fraser tries to loosen what is choking the child

Shortly afterwards you hear him say: ‘He’s getting air, he’s getting air. I can feel him.’

The panicked parents, who remain unidentified, can be seen frantically surrounding the officer as the video ends.

Officer Fraser told the ABC: ‘Right now this is not about writing a ticket, stopping a speeding driver, this is an actual emergency situation.

“When you look at it now, it’s quite overwhelming, but at the moment you can’t think about it much other than relying on the training.”