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Sachem North student saves coach's life

Jessica Campo, a senior at Sachem High School

Photo credit: Linda Rosier | Jessica Campo, a senior at Sachem High School North in Lake Ronkonkoma, by the school's pool where she helped revive her coach who had collapsed while she was on lifeguard duty. (May 31, 2012)

Lifeguard Jessica Campo was terrified when she saw her longtime swim coach collapse poolside late last year at Sachem High School North.

Witnesses feared Al Scott wouldn't survive -- he'd passed out because of a heart condition and wasn't breathing.

He quickly started turning blue.

Though stunned, Campo put her fear aside and took command. She teamed up with a visiting parent to...

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