Originally published 2008 in WorldNetDaily, but I thought you’d appreciate it.

A Florida mother experienced what she is calling a miracle when her young daughter was presumed drowned in a pool, and three strangers brought the girl back to life. Meagan Durocher, who will turn two later this month, fell into a pool at Bristol Pines in Naples, Florida, Saturday evening while attending a party for her uncle, Naples Police Officer Steve Walden.

The girl was underwater for more than a minute, according to one witness. Kathlene Durocher, Meagan’s mother thanked Naples Police Officer Benjamin Vasquez, one of the people who immediately came to the child’s aid, but has been unable to identify the other two helpers.

“They were complete strangers to me,” Durocher said yesterday in an interview with the Naples Daily News. “I don’t know who it was. I want to meet them because they saved the life of my beautiful baby.”

Apparently Meagan slipped into the pool while no one was watching her. Kathlene’s sister pulled Meagan out of the pool and brought her to a table. Party-goers began performing CPR on the child, but she did not respond. “I saw it within a foot of me, that child was dead,” Walden said. “The child was purple (with) swelled eyes and swelled black lips.”

According to Vasquez, who was off-duty at the time, Meagan wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse, but he proceeded to perform chest compressions, even though he never had done it on a child before. “She was purple as a grape,” he said. “It was amazing.”

However, Vasquez was unable to move in close enough to breathe for the child. He yelled for help, and a man and women suddenly came to the rescue. The man breathed for Meagan while the woman took her pulse for about three minutes until the little girl began breathing on her own and spitting up water. “I was hysterical, and someone came up to me and said ‘Look at her, she’s up,’” Durocher said. She didn’t think to look for the strangers for another minute or so, and when she did, they had disappeared. No one at the party remembers seeing them leave.

In a related story, some years ago an atheist doctor happened to see a young girl hit by a car. After a quick examination he was ready to declare her dead at the scene. Then, for some unexplainable reason, he suddenly said, “Lord, if you exist, bring this child back to life.” The very next second the girl took a deep breath. She was not only alive, she was discharged from the hospital that evening.

Heavenly or earthly angels, does it really matter?
https://joanwanderson.com/2009/11/story-of-the-week-november-6-2009-pool-party/