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A 12-year-old kept knocking until someone saved his dad
A 12-year-old boy in Nanaimo, British Columbia, knocked on four doors at 3 a.m. last Saturday before someone finally answered. The fourth was Amy Pye's. She checked her doorbell camera, saw a frightened kid pleading for help, and followed him to his house, where his father lay unresponsive and facedown in the bathroom. Pye, a former Navy reservist, called 911 and started chest compressions on the operator's instructions. She kept going for 10 to 15 minutes until paramedics arrived and one knelt beside her. "I'm taking over," he said. Tina Hein, a first-aid trainer, noted that most people manage about two minutes of compressions before exhaustion. "Ten minutes is a long time," she said. BC Ambulance confirmed the man reached the hospital in stable condition. He had suffered a heart attack and is recovering. Pye keeps insisting the real hero is the boy who refused to stop knocking.