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Members of Cajun Navy resuscitate Houston resident found floating lifeless
http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2017/08/members_of_cajun_navy_resuscit.html#incart_big-photoThree members of the Cajun Navy who went to the Houston area Monday morning to rescue stranded residents pulled a lifeless elderly woman from floodwaters and resuscitated her. Joshua Lincoln of Madisonville, Ricky Berrigan of Lacombe and Donnie Davenport of Pearl River were motoring their flatboat northeast of Houston when they came across 73-year-old Wilma Ellis, floating face down.
"The lady must have been crossing in some current. She floated right to the boat. We jumped out and got her and gave her compressions right there in the water. We were holding her from behind."
After about 15 chest compressions, Ellis began to cough and breathe on her own, Lincoln said. The men pulled her into the boat and used a blanket to help her regain body warmth. She was scared, wet and a little disoriented, Lincoln said. After unsuccessfully searching for anyone who knew Ellis, the men dropped her with a local businessman at a gas station near the corner of Tidwell Road and Parkway Forest Drive.
"We're trying to get an ambulance or helicopter to her," Lincoln said. "I put her medic bracelet out there on social media. I just don't know what else I can do."
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What!? You and your friends saved a woman's life. That's above and beyond. You all stand in the light, good sirs.
Well done, Cajun Navy! 
