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Stowe's 5-year-old Heroine

Stowe, Vermont - December 9, 2009

Nevaeh Lawrence is a bundle of energy; a happy-go-lucky kid who's learning how to read. The 5-year-old is taking on the world and learning important lessons from her mom.

Things were calm Wednesday, but that was not the case Monday.

"I remember taking a bath because it was cold and I don't remember anything else after that except waking up and the cops and EMTs," mom Kimberly Lawrence explained.

Kimberly Lawrence said she went to the tub to warm up because she was in a minor car accident near her home.

The first responders were there because Nevaeh made an important phone call.

"I called 911," Nevaeh said.

It was a critical call that helped her mom, who was likely having a diabetic reaction.

Stowe Police Ofc. Bruce Emerson said, "As it turned out she had blacked out in the tub and had the little girl not called us, not called 911, who knows what would have happened to the mother with the tub full of water?"

Dispatchers get 911 calls from youngsters all the time, but the experienced dispatcher from Lamoille County could tell this call was serious.

"Well I get a lot of calls from kids like that but this one didn't sound right," said Gary Underwood of the Lamoille County Sheriff's Dept. "This little girl was giving us information."

Like information about the car accident and that her Mom could not come to the phone.

Because Kimberly Lawrence is a diabetic, she taught Nevaeh how to use 911 in an emergency.

"She is the only one who is home alone with me and what if I was not available? So I was teaching her with the remote so she did not dial it accidentally on the phone trying to get it right, so if she knew mommy was hurt or daddy, so this was the way to go," Kimberly Lawrence explained.

"She probably did exactly what she was supposed to do and we give her all the credit in the world and her mom is lucky to have her there," Emerson said.

"It was an excellent ending," Underwood said. "It is the way we like to see them."

An excellent ending thanks to a little 5-year-old girl who did a big thing to help her mom.

Anson Tebbetts - WCAX News