Alivia Schroeder was acknowledged by the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office Thursday after she referred to as county 911 dispatchers when her father Maison Schroeder had a seizure Nov. 17. She was greeted by officers and personnel on the county public security constructing in Sennett, accompanied by Maison, her sister, Layla, and her grandparents, Stephen and Kathy Gould.

Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck named Alivia a junior deputy and gave her a certificates. 

“You’re my hero,” Schenck advised her.

Denise Spingler, the county 911 administrator, studying from a unique certificates, mentioned “In recognition of your heroic actions in calling 911, you remained calm and provided the dispatcher with all of the appropriate information to help your dad. Your call amazed us and we are all so very proud of you.”

Alivia’s eyes lit up like fireworks when Spingler gave her a pink balloon that mentioned “911” on it and a bag that included a Squishmallow stuffed animal, a coloring guide and crayons. The lady later spoke with Deputy Nikki Loveless, who responded to the scene, Denise Cornelius, communications coaching officer with the county 911 middle, and McKenna Loerzel, a dispatcher who’s coaching on the 911 middle. Cornelius and Loerzel, who took Alivia’s name, lauded the lady’s calm composure.

After Alivia had her image taken with the totally different personnel, she and her household have been delivered to the 911 middle, the place she was launched to different 911 dispatchers, as Schenck once more referred to as her a hero. Aliva was additionally capable of sit in a dispatcher’s chair. Later, Alivia, holding onto the balloon tightly, and her household chatted with the sheriff, Spingler, Cornelius, Loveless and Loerzel. 

When Loveless was advised round 11 a.m. Nov. 17 {that a} 6-year-old was on the road calling on behalf of her unresponsive father, her coronary heart sank, she mentioned. Emergency medical personnel have been on the scene when Loveless arrived, and after Maison was transported by ambulance, she stayed with Alivia and Layla till Stephen and Kathy arrived, as Maison and his daughters had been staying with them. Loveless lauded Alivia’s response to the scenario.

“Imagine being 6 years old and being calm and collected. They said she was giving good information, but you still want to get there (to the scene),” Loveless mentioned. 

At one level, Alivia was requested who taught her how one can name 911. She mentioned it was her mother, Sara Green. Maison mentioned he began having seizures in maturity they usually turned worse over the past 12 months. He was laying in a recliner at Stephen and Kathy’s dwelling in Aurelius when this seizure occurred and blacked out. In a mushy voice, Alivia defined when her father started seizing, she discovered her dad’s mobile phone plugged right into a charger subsequent to him.

When Cornelius and Loerzel obtained Alivia’s name, she advised them that her was father was drooling and shaking. They requested if he was respiratory, and Alivia mentioned sure. Since he was in a recliner, the lady hit a button which made the chair recline, opening Maison’s airway. Cornelius and Loerzel famous they might hear Maison respiratory on the decision. He started waking up as responders arrived. Loerzel, who started with the middle in September, and Cornelius mentioned Alivia gave related data, similar to her identify, her father’s identify and mentioned they have been at her grandparents’ home and gave her grandfather’s identify.

“You were super, super strong, you knew exactly what to do and you do it,” Spingler mentioned to Alivia.

Maison mentioned Alivia advised her mates concerning the scenario in school the subsequent day. He praised his daughter’s intelligence and mentioned he is “thankful every night” for Alivia probably saving his life.

Cornelius mentioned she was impressed by how Alivia and Loerzel dealt with the scenario, and talked concerning the significance of training kids about emergency calls, together with giving dispatchers the deal with of the place the emergency they’re calling about is happening.

“It just shows that people should educate their kids about 911,” Cornelius mentioned.