Girl who called 911 for her father honored

SENNETT — A 6-year-old miss whitethorn person saved her father's beingness past period with a 911 call.

Alivia Schroeder was acknowledged by the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office Thursday aft she called region 911 dispatchers erstwhile her begetter Maison Schroeder had a seizure Nov. 17. She was greeted by officials and unit astatine the region nationalist information gathering successful Sennett, accompanied by Maison, her sister, Layla, and her grandparents, Stephen and Kathy Gould.

Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck named Alivia a inferior lawman and gave her a certificate. 

"You're my hero," Schenck told her.

Denise Spingler, the region 911 administrator, speechmaking from a antithetic certificate, said "In designation of your heroic actions successful calling 911, you remained calm and provided the dispatcher with each of the due accusation to assistance your dad. Your telephone amazed america and we are each truthful precise arrogant of you."

Alivia's eyes lit up similar fireworks erstwhile Spingler gave her a reddish balloon that said "911" connected it and a container that included a Squishmallow stuffed animal, a coloring publication and crayons. The miss aboriginal spoke with Deputy Nikki Loveless, who responded to the scene, Denise Cornelius, communications grooming serviceman with the region 911 center, and McKenna Loerzel, a dispatcher who is grooming astatine the 911 center. Cornelius and Loerzel, who took Alivia's call, lauded the girl's calm composure.

After Alivia had her representation taken with the antithetic personnel, she and her household were brought to the 911 center, wherever she was introduced to different 911 dispatchers, arsenic Schenck again called her a hero. Aliva was besides capable to beryllium successful a dispatcher's chair. Later, Alivia, holding onto the balloon tightly, and her household chatted with the sheriff, Spingler, Cornelius, Loveless and Loerzel. 

When Loveless was told astir 11 a.m. Nov. 17 that a 6-year-old was connected the enactment calling connected behalf of her unresponsive father, her bosom sank, she said. Emergency aesculapian unit were connected the country erstwhile Loveless arrived, and aft Maison was transported by ambulance, she stayed with Alivia and Layla until Stephen and Kathy arrived, arsenic Maison and his daughters had been staying with them. Loveless lauded Alivia's effect to the situation.

"Imagine being 6 years aged and being calm and collected. They said she was giving bully information, but you inactive privation to get determination (to the scene)," Loveless said. 

At 1 point, Alivia was asked who taught her however to telephone 911. She said it was her mom, Sara Green. Maison said helium started having seizures successful adulthood and they became worse implicit the past year. He was laying successful a recliner astatine Stephen and Kathy's location successful Aurelius erstwhile this seizure happened and blacked out. In a brushed voice, Alivia explained erstwhile her begetter began seizing, she recovered her dad's compartment telephone plugged into a charger adjacent to him.

When Cornelius and Loerzel received Alivia's call, she told them that her was begetter was drooling and shaking. They asked if helium was breathing, and Alivia said yes. Since helium was successful a recliner, the miss deed a fastener which made the seat recline, opening Maison's airway. Cornelius and Loerzel noted they could perceive Maison breathing connected the call. He began waking up arsenic responders arrived. Loerzel, who began with the halfway successful September, and Cornelius said Alivia gave applicable information, specified arsenic her name, her father's sanction and said they were astatine her grandparents' location and gave her grandfather's name.

"You were super, ace strong, you knew precisely what to bash and you bash it," Spingler said to Alivia.

Maison said Alivia told her friends astir the concern astatine schoolhouse the adjacent day. He praised his daughter's quality and said he's "thankful each night" for Alivia perchance redeeming his life.

Cornelius said she was impressed by however Alivia and Loerzel handled the situation, and talked astir the value of educating children astir exigency calls, including giving dispatchers the code of wherever the exigency they are calling astir is occurring.

"It conscionable shows that radical should amended their kids astir 911," Cornelius said.