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By Chabadinfo Reporter

The NYPD awarded R’ Menachem Delevkovitz of Crown Heights, a sergeant in the NYPD Auxiliary patrol, who was off-duty at the time for saving a Chabad toddler in the Catskills on Sunday. 

On Sunday, a 2-year-old boy drowned at a Chabad colony in the Catskills. R’ Delevkovitz, who was in the pool at the time sprung into action and saved the toddler by starting CPR until Hatzalah arrived. 

Hatzalah swiftly arranged for an urgent airlift to Westchester Medical Center.

On Monday, the boy was discharged from the hospital and is going home, B’Chasdei Hashem, thanks to R’ Delevkovitz’s heroic actions.

R’ Delevkovitz was awarded by the NYPD on Monday by Captain Alexander Cedillo, Commanding Officer of the NYPD Auxiliary, during a ceremony at One Police Plaza in Manhattan.

R’ Delevkovitz related (edited for clarity): “I was in Upstate New York, in a community pool. I looked around, and I saw that 2-year-old baby on the side of the pool, and his father screaming for help. He was blue, unresponsive, [with] no pulse, no breathing. Several years ago, I did my CPR course as part of my auxiliary training, and in that one second, it clicked all in. I did CPR on the baby for about two minutes. After two minutes, it starts to see some signs of life. He was then driven to a chopper to hospital. Today, I was told he was back home.”

A two-year-old boy is alive today thanks to Auxiliary Sergeant Delevkovitz, who used his Auxiliary CPR training after the boy drowned and was unresponsive. Today, the baby is back with his family. So proud of our team!!! pic.twitter.com/8cQp4r7z0U

— NYPD Auxiliary (@NYPDauxiliary) July 16, 2024

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