A heroic dad-of-four ran into a burning building to help save a Scots gran after her house went up in flames. Dean Clark was on his way to work on Monday, April 24, when he saw smoke pouring into the sky from a nearby property.
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A dad told of the horrifying moment he found his four-year-old daughter drowning in the bath.
Harriet Richardson asked her dad Jamie to run her a bath after she started suffering from chickenpox on January 5. As Jamie, originally from Southport and living in Reading, went to get Harriet some pyjamas, the four-year-old suffered a seizure in the bath and went under the water.
Jamie, 31, said: "She was in the bath, happy as Larry. Prior to this I'd done a temperature check - she's susceptible to febrile seizures (fits that can happen when a child has a fever). Her temperature was fine, 36.5.
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"It got to about quarter to four and I said 'I'll go get your pyjamas and I'll be right back.' I went and got her pyjamas, and when I got back she'd had a seizure in the bath and gone under the water.
"Unless you've actually been in the scenario you don't believe it's happening. You think this must be a joke.
"I couldn't believe this was happening to me and I couldn't believe this was happening to Harriet. I scooped her out of the bath, she was in respiratory arrest. It was horrific."
Jamie called 999 and started doing CPR after discovering Harriet was not breathing. Jamie said: "I was doing CPR for 12 and a half minutes and I found a heart beat under my hand. At this point the paramedics had taken over."
Harriet was taken to Royal Berkshire Hospital where she was placed into a medically induced coma. She was then transferred to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where she remained in an induced coma for ten days.
Jamie said: "They placed her in a neurologically preserved state, which means her body was totally cooled down in order to
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