Store Security Officer Saves Baby's Life

                                     STORE SECURITY OFFICER SAVES BABY'S LIFE

                                            DECEMBER 23, 2011

KANSAS CITY, KS

A father was frantic. His baby had gone limp and stopped breathing.  A Nebraska Furniture Mart security officer calmly stepped in and helped perform CPR. Without him, and a nurse who was shopping in the store, the Rahman family said they believe they would not have their baby girl today.

Mahira Rahman, who is not even 1 year old, suffered a seizure while the family was shopping.  Surveillance video captured the father's frantic actions in front of security officer Mark Warren's work station.

As others called 911, Warren stepped in to save the little girl's life when he realized that the father wasn't taking decisive action.  "I took the child and put her right here and started to do the assessment like you learn in basic CPR class," he recalled recently.  Frantic family members surrounded him, watching Warren's every move.  "You just kind of say a little prayer and hope that you do the right thing and you focus on the patient, the child" he said. "You don't worry about what's going on around  you."

Nebraska Furniture Mart provides training for all its security officers to ensure they are ready to deal with every possible emergency, store director Ed Lipsett said.  "We put all of our security officers through quite a bit of extensive training including First Aid and CPR and anything we can to make sure our customers have a safe environment to shop in," Lipsett said.

After such excitement, some might have wanted to head home to decompress. Not Warren and his colleagues.  "We all went back to work taking care of other customers,"he said with a smile.

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