Chicopee Police Department
8 Jul 2021
Two police officers in Chicopee, Massachusetts, earn recognition for saving a little girl who fell into a swimming pool in June.
Two-year-old Alianas was unresponsive when the officers began CPR following the initial incident that took place at Sarah Jane Sherman Memorial State Pool, Spectrum News 1 reported Wednesday.
Officers Jacek Wanat and Flordemaris Delarosa responded to the call once the girl was reported missing.
“I was just doing my job pretty much,” Officer Wanat recalled. “Training and adrenaline kicked in and I did what I had to do and the outcome was good.”
When the officers arrived at the scene, Alianas’ dad, Orlando Rivera, had already gotten her out of the water. He immediately gave her to Wanat who performed CPR while Officer Delarosa assisted.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WLNE)- Two people have died as a result of a two car crash in Chicopee on Tuesday night.
Tiana Vega, 20, and John Burkott, 28, both of Springfield, died as a result of the crash.
Police say that both drivers passed a car driving in the middle lane and then moved back. Vega went to shift back into the left lane and lost control of her car and crashed into Burkott.
The crash caused both cars to veer off the highway and into the wooded tree line.
Vega crashed into at least two trees, Burkott struck just one.
The investigation into the 1972 murder of a 13-year-old altar boy in Chicopee, Massachusetts has been closed after investigators obtained additional information about a recently-deceased priest connected to the case. Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said in a press conference Monday he had sought an arrest warrant for the priest, Richard Lavigne, after recently obtaining new admissions from Lavigne. However,.