The two city employees were handling routine duties in Aurora on Sept. 19 when they heard a scream from a desperate mother in a nearby house when she discovered her son wasn’t breathing and was on the couch unresponsive.
City of Aurora employees Daniel Chavez, center, and Josh Elrod were honored by the Aurora City Council Tuesday night for saving 1-year-old Julian Rodriguez, left, earlier this month after he had stopped breathing.
The boy was running back and forth during Tuesday’s Aurora City Council meeting, something he wouldn’t have been able to do if it wasn’t for the fast-thinking earlier this month of Daniel Chavez and Josh Elrod, both employees of the city’s Water and Sewer Division.Chavez and Elrod were honored during Tuesday’s meeting and given not only MVP awards, but street signs boasting their names.
Paulina grabbed Julian and rushed outside to seek help while Chavez and Elrod ran down the block in the direction the scream came from, officials said.
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