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HERO: Veteran Elmwood Park Firefighter Revives Drowning Girl, 4 HERO: Veteran Elmwood Park Firefighter Revives Drowning Girl, 4
Hero: Veteran Elmwood Park Firefighter Revives Drowning Girl, 4 An Elmwood Park fire chief bolted from his home after a neighbor whose 4-year-old daughter was drowning in a backyard pool banged on his door Sunday night shouting for help. Second Battalion Chief Robert Bruce Sr., 43, scooped up the lifeless youngster, who by that point was “already turning blue,” Elmwood Park Fire Chief William Shadwell said. "Just a few compressions" and the girl was breathing again, he told Daily Voice early Monday. The 23-year volunteer firefighter "acted calmly and professionally,” Shadwell said. “Everyone was in a panic, but he kept the situation calm…

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by Jerry DeMarco