UPDATE Tuesday 10 p.m.

An AT&T worker saved a child from drowning Monday in Vidor.

He's being called a hero.

Our Brian Burns talks to the telephone lineman about the accident.


"I was just a person who God put in the right place at the right time," says 52 year old Bobby Flick.

Flick has been working for AT&T for over 30 years and was working on Willow Bend Road in south Vidor when he saw a family pull the lifeless body of a 3 year old girl from the family's swimming pool.

Flick says, "So I ran over to see if I could assist them and I ended up performing CPR on her. And thank God she came back."

Flick credits his AT&T safety training.

The family said they only turned around for a moment when the little girl went under water and didn't come back up.

Although declining to go on camera, the mom tells us she hopes to meet up with Flick one day to thank him herself for saving her little girl.

For life-saving lessons for yourself or even swimming lessons for the kids, you can always come to the Vidor city public pool.

Most of the parents in Vidor we talked with had one piece of advice... Don't let the little ones out of your sight.

Janize Shuf, a Vidor resident says; "I teach summer school and I have to teach the younger children. And they can slip out real quickly."

Resident Charity Murray says, "How quickly something like that can happen, turning your back for a minute and thinking everything's okay and it not be."

Orange ESD #1 fire chief Jerrry Aldridge says, "Don't leave them alone. Don't let them take a bath by themselves, don't let them in the kitchen by themselves to drink a glass of water by themselves."

But Bobby Flick says he didn't feel like a hero while he was saving the little girl's life. "She was a little girl that needed some help but to somebody, she was their world."

You can contact your local Red Cross for information on life saving courses or swimming lessons.



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The parents of a 3-year-old girl are breathing a little easier after a very close call involving their child Monday.

Orange County Sheriff's Department tells KBMT12 the little girl was swimming in the family's back yard on Willow Bend Road in Vidor. He said the family was in an above-ground pool when the parents turned away momentarily. At one point the girl failed to come up for air, forcing the parents into action.

Deputy Chad Hogan tells KBMT the parents quickly rescued her from the pool.

The parents of the little girl tell KBMT12 News that Bobby Flick, an AT&T worker who was working in a nearby lot, came over and performed CPR, reviving the girl.

Deputy Chad Hogan said EMT showed up shortly after and then transferred the baby to Christus Hospital St Elizabeth, where she is doing fine.