{"id":68530,"date":"2015-12-09T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T01:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=68530"},"modified":"2015-12-11T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:24:30","slug":"chp-officer-saves-life-while-working-a-chips-for-kids-toy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/12\/09\/chp-officer-saves-life-while-working-a-chips-for-kids-toy-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP officer saves life while working CHiPS for Kids Toy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_68531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68531\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CHP-officer-P-Torres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68531\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CHP-officer-P-Torres.jpg\" alt=\"California Highway Patrol Officer P. Torres [contributed]\" width=\"624\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CHP-officer-P-Torres.jpg 624w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CHP-officer-P-Torres-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Highway Patrol Officer P. Torres [contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER &#8212; Antelope Valley California Highway Patrol Officer <strong>P. Torres<\/strong> was at the right place at the right time Tuesday afternoon. He provided medical aid to a 34-year-old woman, helping to save the woman\u2019s life, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, outside the Walgreens located at 831 East Avenue K in Lancaster. Officer Torres was at the Walgreens as part of the CHiPS for Kids Toy Drive, an effort to collect new, unwrapped toys to be distributed to less fortunate children in the Antelope Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficer Torres was informed by Walgreens Manager L. Rodriguez there was an unconscious female inside a parked vehicle in the parking lot,\u201d said CHP Officer Gil Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Torres and an off-duty San Bernardino County sheriff\u2019s deputy rushed to the woman\u2019s aid. They found her unresponsive inside the parked vehicle, according to Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe female had no pulse and was not breathing,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cOfficer Torres advised Los Angeles Communication Center (dispatch), requesting Los Angeles County Fire Department to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficer Torres and Deputy Reardon started performing CPR until the female regained breathing and a pulse,\u201d Hernandez added.<\/p>\n<p>Torres and Reardon monitored the woman until the fire department arrived, and she was transported to Antelope Valley Hospital in stable condition, according to Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficer Torres was out there doing a toy drive, he was not on patrol,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cHis training kicked in and he was able to provide the medical aid that this person needed to stabilize her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8212; Antelope Valley California Highway Patrol Officer P. Torres was at the right place at the right time Tuesday afternoon. He provided medical aid to a 34-year-old woman, helping to save the woman\u2019s life, authorities said. It happened around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, outside the Walgreens located at 831 East Avenue K in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}