Yeah, it works.

16-Year-Old Brings Little Brother Back To Life

by Kim Gebbia

PUTNAM COUNTY, Tenn. - A Putnam County three-year-old nearly drowned in his backyard pool. When his grandmother didn't know what to do, his teenage brother stepped in to save his life.

16-year-old Jeffrey Hall said he never thought he would remember what to do in an emergency and never thought that emergency would involve his little brother in his own backyard.

On Tuesday, Skyler disappeared from sight in their backyard pool when his grandmother, Karen Hall made a phone call inside the house. She walked outside and saw his life jacket on the cement and feared the worst.

"My eyes went directly and I saw his body laying at the bottom of the pool and I dived in," she said.

She pulled the three-year-old from the water, and admitted she didn't know what to do next.

"Just to have that baby in my arms, lifeless. To me he was gone and I didn't know what to do I felt helpless," said Hall.

But Skyler's brother, 16-year-old Jeffrey Hall, didn't feel helpless.

"I was very nervous and scared when I saw his body lifeless like that but I had to stay calm and think that I could save his life I could," said Hall.

He remembered the CPR lessons he learned at Cookeville High School, the lessons he thought he'd never have to use.

"I did five reps of the pushing and two breaths and he started coughing up and then I heard a sigh and it was the biggest smile on my face just happened," said Hall.

"When I saw him at Cookeville Hospital, when they had that baby I grabbed him and said Jeffrey thank you so much thank you so much for saving my baby," Hall said.

Skyler is almost recovered and eager to go home. Jeffrey said this toddler is a living lesson to all adults and teens that CPR saves lives; he just never thought it would be him saving his little brother's.

"If I wasn't there we would be going to funeral he would be gone," said Hall.

Jeffrey said he is organizing a CPR class for everyone on his street since so many of his neighbors in Cookeville have pools.

A detective from the Putnam County Sheriff's Department said Skyler is proof that those two hour classes are well worth the time in Cookeville High Schools.