Mass. Police Officer Saves 2-Year-Old from Near Drowning [Video]

A Massachusetts off-duty police officer saved a toddler from drowning on Friday, Aug. 2, during his vacation in New Hampshire, according to a press release from Chelmsford Police Department.

Officer Matthew Sech and his family were visiting Iona Lake, nestled below the White Mountains in Conway, N.H,. when his wife spotted a 2-year-old girl unconscious and not breathing.

“My wife started screaming my name, and I looked, and she started pointing to a beach area where we were, and she’s pointing to one end of the beach,” Sech told WVCB and WMUR-TV.

He explained that he saw the child’s mother “giving her child back slaps to the back” and then “rushed over.” 

“At that time, I asked the woman what was going on, and she said, ‘My daughter was underwater and she’s not breathing,’ ” Sech said. “When I took a hold of the woman’s child, I quickly did …