“The officer did an amazing job, and I am so grateful she got there when she did,” Yuwar said. “I don’t want anything else for the holidays. This is great.”

Five years ago, Holtz answered a call of a possible drowning in the pool at Adam’s Mark Hotel.

“I happened to be at Police Headquarters when I got the call, and it took me less than a minute to get over to the hotel,” Holtz said.

When she arrived, an adult had moved the unconscious child to the pool’s edge. Holtz grabbed the boy and pulled him from the water.

“I turned him onto his side with another adult and as we were turning him, water came out of his mouth. It was lot of water and he started coughing and breathing. An ambulance crew came and took over,” Holtz said.

But Holtz said her first time of saving a child holds a special place in her heart.

On an afternoon in 2009, she answered a 911 call of a baby who was choking at a residence on the 200 block of Niagara Street. Holtz happened to be a just a few blocks away.