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Only on ABC 6 - Toddler Saved from Storm Drain Back Home with Family

John Eagan

Story Created: May 5, 2008 at 12:25 PM EDT

Story Updated: May 5, 2008 at 6:45 PM EDT

     A 20-month old toddler almost lost her life in a 6 foot deep storm drain on Saturday Night.
     Two Samaritans say she was minutes from death.
     The mother of the child, Luzia DeSouza was picking her kids up from the babysitters house on Fourth Street in Fall River, when her little girl ran out of the house and fell down the drain into the water inside.
     Pedro Davila ran to the rescue, jumping in the storm drain and pulling her out.
     Another man nearby, Bruce Hebert performed CPR on the girl.
     Now that little girl is home from the hospital and with her family again.
     ABC 6 reporter Erica Ricci is in Fall River with the details...

Monday, May 5 at 10:50 PM Mike Fall River wrote ...

True heroes!!!! Is there anything you would avoid more than going into a dark sewer. Who hasn't had that nightmare where you fall into a sewer. UGH!!!! Take a collection for these guys.....just say where to send the money.

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