Life Saving Incident
August 2020
Florida
Orange County
Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. – There’s no memorial set up on the corner of Silver Star and Pine Hills roads; Orlando police officer Curtis Neraasen prefers it stay that way.
In August, four-year veteran Officer Curtis Neraasen came upon a crash while helping handle a different investigation. There, he noticed a 15-month-old baby struggling to breathe. Neraasen administered basic life-saving techniques to open the child’s airway while waiting for EMTs to arrive. “Just happened to be the right place, right time,” he said. “Hearing that infant cry and hearing her fighting for air, there are things that just don’t leave you. And that’s definitely one of the things that won’t.” Dr. Donald Plumley with Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital was the on-call surgeon that night and stated “We all are called upon to do our job, but this is something above and beyond your job,” Plumley said. “These are like second reflexes to people. It was the ability for Officer Neraasen to instantly react in a situation where you didn’t have five or 10 minutes to spare. You probably had a minute plus or minus to save this child’s life and that made all the difference in the world.”
The history of law enforcement in the United States is a long and wonderful history of bravery. This website is dedicated to documenting the heroic deeds of law enforcement officers throughout the United States who have either given or risked their lives to save others. There are many stories of bravery and heroism for many who are considered first responders. However, it is those in law enforcement who are most likely to be the first to arrive upon a location requiring life saving acts engaging dangerous hostage takers, running into burning buildings/vehicles, providing first aid to seriously injured victims, saving near drowning victims and much more are what the women and men of law enforcement do routinely and at many times, great peril to their own safety.
It is our mission to document the history of lives saved by those dedicated women and men in law enforcement. To share with others the dramatic deeds of those individuals who are the first, first responders. It is so important for our citizens to understand that law "enforcement" is not always about enforcing the law but rather being there when our citizens need us.
It is to this end we are dedicated to promoting documentation regarding the history of law enforcement and the lives they have saved.
