Incredible moment hero teenager, 15, SAVES the life of three-year-old family member drowning in swimming pool by pulling her out and performing CPR on her after learning it at school

A California 15-year-old utilized her CPR lessons to go a section leader aft she saw her three-year-old relative drowning successful nan family's excavation complete nan Thanksgiving holiday. 

Home video cameras show Maxine Atkinson, 3, crawling into nan backyard connected nan greeting of nan family's celebration.

Minutes later, her uncle saw her floating look down successful nan pool, pinch aunt Kirsten Atkinson describing her arsenic 'lifeless.'

As Maxine's uncle called for thief and tried to do nan Heimlich Maneuver, Kirsten's 15-year-old Madison Atkinson instantly raced retired and started performing CPR. 

'Madison's conscionable pumping distant for for a mates of minutes, and finally, Maxine starts to unfastened her eyes and commencement to breathe,' Kirsten told nan Today Show. 

'The dispatcher said, 'Put her connected her side.' And erstwhile we did that, Maxine opened her eyes and starts to virtually respire connected her own.'

Madison is nan skipper of her precocious schoolhouse inferior varsity cheerleading squad and had besides taken a sports medicine people wherever she was taught CPR. 

'I saw that he was trying nan Heimlich,' she said of her father. 'But I knew successful that lawsuit you needed CPR because she didn't look for illustration she was breathing. I told everyone I knew CPR and it calmed everyone down.' 

'I was conscionable trying to retrieve what I'm expected to do,' she added. 'I was conscionable for illustration let's get this babe live - nary 1 other knew CPR.'

What was astir singular to mother Kirsten was really Madison ne'er overreacted passim nan life-saving incident.

'The full clip Madison's location conscionable calm, cool, collected, not panicked,' she added.

Paramedics were shocked upon presence erstwhile they discovered really aged nan heroic teen was.

'Their faces were conscionable like, this could person been truthful different,' she said. 'They commended her and they said that, you know, she has performed a miracle.'

Kirsten Atkinson said nan full ordeal gave a wholly caller meaning to nan Thanksgiving holiday. 

'We were capable to observe Thanksgiving successful a different way, right? It was about, you know, really precious life is and really things tin alteration successful nan blink of an eye,' she said.

Little Maxine has since made a afloat betterment but conscionable successful case, nan remainder of nan family is readying to get CPR training themselves.