Miraculous Survival of Baby Lily
PAUL: Listen to this, police in Utah say they heard a strange voice calling to them from a vehicle that had plunged into the Spanish Fork River last Friday.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To me it was plain as day because I remember hearing a voice that did not sound like a child. Just saying help me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Someone said help me inside of that car, and I think that it was - that said it. We're trying. We're trying our best gain.</s>PAUL: And then that voice just can't be explained because the baby's mother, 25-year old Lee Jennifer Groesbeck, was found dead. And some are calling it a miracle that her baby Lily survived alone and suspended upside down in her car seat for 14 hours after this crash. Sam Penrod with our affiliate KSL has this heart-stopping body cam footage of her dramatic rescue.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go ahead.</s>SAM PENROD, KSL REPORTER: As one of the first Spanish Fork officers responding to the call of a car in the river, this officer runs down into the water without hesitation joining other first responders. A fisherman had called police to report that car was in the river, calling back 90 seconds later when he could see someone was trapped inside.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What have we got? What have we got?</s>PENROD: Three police officers, two firefighters and the fisherman all jumped into action trying to flip the car over.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ah!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on! Let's go - come on. Let's go. Come on.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep on.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Watch out! Watch out!</s>PENROD: Tragically they can see the driver Jenny Groesbeck was fatally injured in the crash, but the situation was about to take on an even greater sense of urgency.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anybody here?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, god, there's a baby. Bryan get up here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a baby.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bryant. Get up here, though.</s>PENROD: Moments later, a fire fighter pulls what seems to be a small lifeless body out of the car.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got it. You got it. Pass her up. Pass her up. Pass her up. Right here. Go, go, go.</s>PENROD: The officer and the EMT carried Lily up the rocks and run to a waiting ambulance.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on baby. She is definitely hypothermic. She is freezing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just - up in there.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go. Go.</s>PENROD: The office starts patting her on the back hoping she will start to breathe and gives Lily encouragement to live.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, sweetie. Come on, Sweetie.</s>PENROD: They began giving Lily infant CPR and trying to warm her up as the ambulance rushes to the hospital and no one can feel a pulse.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're almost there. Are you getting a pulse?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I cannot feel anything.</s>PENROD: As the ambulance arrive to the hospital just six minutes after Lily was pulled from the car there's a sign of life.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's all right.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on.</s>PENROD: Lily starts to vomit as the officer runs here into the emergency room.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Straight in. Come on baby. We have been doing CPR on here. She has been throwing up a little bit.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was rolled over into the river and under water and emerged the whole way.</s>PENROD: Doctors and nurses helped to stabilize Lily as the video ends. She is later flown to primary children's hospital.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Old McDonald had a farm.</s>PENROD: And just four days later this is Lily laughing and playing with her father just a few hours before she was released from the hospital. A truly miraculous recovery for a little girl who seemed to be lifeless when she was pulled from a wrecked car in the frigid water of the Spanish Fork River.</s>PAUL: Sam Penrod reporting there from affiliate KSL. Baby Lily is back home, by the way, and her father says he is just overwhelmed. You can help this family. Just you can visit there a go fund me page. So far people donated $73,000, but man, if you ever wondered what first responders go through, what an account that is to really bring us into those moments.</s>BLACKWELL: It's amazing and there were little details that - I mean I don't have kids. You have three. But when you see the first responders doing these compressions, not with the full fist ...</s>PAUL: Yeah.</s>BLACKWELL: But with just two fingers, it really brings home the fragility of a 14 month old and how she survived all that time.</s>PAUL: And the whole mystery of all those men hearing somebody saying help me, when you hear that 14 month old can't say it.</s>BLACKWELL: Yeah.</s>PAUL: Just wow.</s>BLACKWELL: Where did that voice come from?</s>PAUL: Just wow. All ready. We are going to be right back.