(CNN) -- The British passenger who caught a 1-year-old child who fell from the fourth-floor terrace of an Orlando, Florida, motel was credited by government and commerce governors Friday.
Officials credit Helen Beard's rapid thinking with saving Jah-Nea Myles' life. Beard was in the pond district of the Econo Lodge Inn and Suites around 9:15 Thursday nightfall while, afterward listening horrific yells, she looked up to watch a small child hanging from a hotel balcony.
"We heard shouts and I cornered around," said Beard, 44, a mama who was above recess with her associate, Philip Charlesworth, and her 10-year-old son, Ben. "I was proficient to scamper over and arrest Jah-Nea,
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Beard said it seemed the girl slipped through a railing by the balcony walkway, deputies told CNN affiliate WKMG.
Just hours afterward, Beard, a health services critic, was honored as her "heroic actions." She was given a "Medal of Merit" by the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the International Drive Chamber of Commerce and the state Department of Children and Families for showing "uncommon instinct and initiative" when she leaped into movement.
"It entire happened so rapid," said Beard, who was still shocked by all the attention. "I just sat with her and tried apt silence her down when everybody was dreading approximately me."
Helena Myles, the child's mother, said she left her daughter with a fribring an end to ... a motel room, according to WKMG. The friend, Dominique Holt, said he went to use the lavatory and then found the hotel room gate open after hearing screams, the sheriff's office said.
A female who was in the hotel chamber with Holt said she didn't understand the child was there, according to deputies.
No charges have been filed in the case.
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