First responders in Stafford County, Virginia, were called to a drowning on Falmouth Beach on Tuesday, but when they got there, the victim was breathing on his own. Now, they鈥檙e making sure to credit the good Samaritans who saved the man鈥檚 life.
The Stafford County Sheriff鈥檚 Office said in a statement Wednesday that when their deputies and fire and rescue personnel got to the beach a little after 5:30 p.m., the 21-year-old whose drowning they were supposedly responding to had been revived by Darius Burr, an off-duty member of the U.S. Secret Service.
Burr helped pull the man out of the water; he was unresponsive at the time, the sheriff鈥檚 office said.
Burr then performed CPR with the help of another beach-goer, whom the sheriff鈥檚 office didn鈥檛 identify, and after a few compressions, the man was breathing on his own.
The drowning victim was taken to a hospital as a precaution, the office said.
鈥淭he Stafford sheriff鈥檚 office would like to commend Mr. Burr and the other good Samaritans for their actions in preventing a tragedy,鈥� the statement said.
