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Hero teens save drowning grandfather

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    Granddaughters credited with saving their grandpa in Pennsylvania

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-- I started well most emotional.

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Paul Kennedy is very grateful his family was there to save him last week he was swimming with his two granddaughters at their new house when suddenly.

Eleven year old -- saw him face down in the pool she scream for her older sister Madison.

I would look -- -- a song face down and -- pool.

Besides Johnson and and pull him up and I came up with nonchalant and I kept saying get mom get mom get mom.

Madison carried her grandfather all the way across the pool and with the help her mom Susan and Cassidy.

They started to revive him.

I told Cassidy.

To come over and hold its head up.

And that's -- mom okay now black holed his nose and blow.

Is she good tackler stops I think this compression.

And then I we did the whole thing again and pleaded as his times and any -- -- -- -- -- Madison had never performed CPR but she had watched a video on CPR for babysitting class Susan Kennedy was frightened but she knew to trust -- fourteen year old daughter.

And let Madison take charge it's.

I -- -- In nineteen there is at my history shaking up by Lance let myself.

Freak out and -- afraid that we're gonna lose men and I was kind of flipping out on the end ask crying and stuff -- -- is not going to completely embarrassed out screaming.

Minutes later paramedics arrived at times -- -- piety and I thought here.

Paul Kennedy says a slow heart rate caused him to faint in the pool Friday doctors gave -- a pacemaker he is recovering at home and says he won't be swimming anymore this summer.

But looks forward to visits from his family especially his granddaughters.

Who helped bring him back to life -- -- and I love there.

Many in the eleven year old -- she started the ball -- This really has been through such an ordeal they feel very strongly they won't now all become CPR certified in Huntington valley -- -- fox 29 news.

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