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Child Pronounced Dead, Lives
Nurse Mary Zollinger was on duty at Madison Memorial Hospital in Boise, Idaho, when the emergency medical personnel brought in little Logan Pinto's body. The two-year-old had fallen into a canal and remained submerged for nearly 30 minutes before rescuers found him. Efforts to revive him failed, and Logan was pronounced dead. The grieving parents wept and said their goodbyes, and Zollinger began preparing the body for the funeral home.
Then the nurse saw Logan's chest move slightly. The child was still alive. Logan was airlifted to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. That evening the two-year-old was breathing on his own, and his color had returned.
The police chief from Logan's hometown was overwhelmed. He said, "It's called divine intervention, I think. I don't know how to explain it. It's joyous and relieving."
Who could describe the flood of emotion when the parents were informed that their son, who was dead, was still alive?