reporter for rescue

A desperate woman jumped out of her SUV on the Dolphin Expressway in Florida, screaming for help as her baby turned blue. The Miami Herald’s Al Diaz ran among cars along the highway until he found a police officer in his patrol car and told him about the infant who had stopped breathing.

Like any veteran news shutterbug, when Al Diaz spots trouble on the road he reaches for his camera.

But when he saw a desperate woman jump out of her SUV in Miami on Thursday and scream for help as the baby in her arms turned blue, Diaz reached for help.

The Miami Herald photographer ran among cars along the Dolphin Expressway and found a Sweetwater cop in his patrol car. Diaz told him about the baby who had stopped breathing.

“As a photojournalist you want to capture these images, but as a human being you want to get help,” Diaz told the Daily News on Thursday night.

The officer, Amauris Bastidasy, and Diaz raced over to the distraught woman, Pamela Rauseo, 37. The cop took over the CPR effort on Rauseo’s nephew, 5-month-old Sebastian de la Cruz, from Lucila Godoy, 34, another motorist who had stopped to help.

Together, Bastidasy, and Godoy got the baby breathing. And then to their horror, Sebastian stopped breathing again.

More emergency responders had arrived, including Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s hazardous-materials unit.

Godoy and the emergency workers started another round of CPR and got little Sebastian breathing before emergency responders arrived to take him to a hospital. Rauseo said the child had been born prematurely and suffered breathing problems.