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Monday morning in New Jersey a kindergartner helped save his
dad’s life thanks to some quick thinking and a firm grasp of his ABC’s.
Nathaniel Dancy Jr. had gone shopping and to the movies with
his dad on Monday. When they were on the
way home Nathaniel Dancy Sr. began suffering a stroke and an aneurysm while
driving. Luckily he was able to get the
car pulled off the highway and to a complete stop. 5-year-old Nathaniel Jr. grabbed his father’s
phone and called his grandmother, who often takes care of him while his mother
works at her job at New Jersey Transit.
The distraught boy initially hung up, but then called his
grandmother back. She then did a
three-way phone call with her daughter, who is the mother of Nathaniel Jr. Nathaniel was trying to tell them where he
was, but had trouble pronouncing the name of a nearby store, so they asked him
to spell it out. He said, “F-U-R-N-I-T-U-R-E “ and then the number 22. He also
said they had just gone through a “tunnel,’’ which was actually a nearby
highway overpass.
Quick-thinking Hardy-Blackman went to a nearby firehouse and
asked if they knew where a furniture store of that name might be, and once they
told her, she quickly dialed 911 to tell them where to go while her daughter
rushed over to the scene. It turned out
Nathaniel and his dad were in the parking lot of 22 Furniture Gallery on Route
22 in Hillside, N.J., near their home in Newark.
To read more on this story go to: http://www.today.com/news/kindergartner-helps-save-dads-life-knowing-his-abcs-1C9939780