Hampton Roads Is Helping A Local Hero

November 17, 2008 | Virginia News

"I was on midnight shift and the only officer on duty," Lt. Kurt Beach told Newschannel 3. "A call came over the radio that there was an infant that was not breathing...I couldn't get breaths into her, so the only thing I could think to do was to clear the airway," Lt. Kurt Beach of the Smithfield Police said. "So, I did what I thought I needed to do which was suck out the mucus and blood that was clogging her up. There was quite a bit of it."

As Lt. Beach desperately tried to save a baby girls life in February of 1988, the father and husband never once thought that good deed could one day cost him everything; including his life.

Lt. Beach has Hepatitis C, an incurable disease that's slowly destroyed his liver. A disease he contracted on that fateful night.

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