Apr 12, 2013 1:08pmA Florida 2-year-old lost both feet Wednesday night after her father accidentally...

1. Florida 2-Year-Old Loses Feet in Lawn Mower
Apr 12, 2013 1:08pm
A Florida 2-year-old lost both feet Wednesday night after her father accidentally backed over her
with his riding lawn mower.
The girl's mother, Nicole Nugent, said their next door neighbor saved her daughter's life by
applying pressure to the wounds with towels before help could arrive, Â according to WFTS, the ABC
affiliate in Tampa.
Ireland Nugent, 2, lost both
feet after a lawn mower accident. (Credit: ABC News)
"She saved my daughter's life," Nugent said of neighbor  Aly Smith, a nurse, during a Thursday
evening press conference.
Two-year-old Ireland Nugent  was calling her father's name as he mowed the lawn Wednesday
night, but he didn't see her, said Nugent, who watched as her husband mowed over her daughter's
legs.
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The injury only took "15 seconds," but it required doctors to amputate both Ireland's feet just above
her ankles, Nugent said.
Smith stayed with the family as it waited for a helicopter to transport Ireland to Tampa General
Hospital, where she remained  in intensive care unit  Thursday night.
"It was one of the saddest, scariest things I'd ever seen," Â Smith told WFTS. "She just kept saying
she wanted to go to bed."

2. Ireland
has
already
undergo
ne two
surgerie
s to
cleanse
her
wounds
and
repair a
hand
injury,
the
family's
pastor,
Dennis
Reid,
said at
the
press
conferen
ce.
Ireland
will have
another
operatio
n
 Saturd
ay and a
green
grass
final one
to close
the
wounds
on
Monday,
he said.
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Steve Chamberland, who founded  50Legs.org to give prosthetic legs to 50 children, has already
offered to provide Ireland with prosthetics, WFTS reported. He is also missing a leg and began
helping amputees in 2011, according to his website.
"Of all the children in the word, it will not stop my daughter," Nugent said at the press conference.
"Once I saw her and saw that she had color and saw that she was still my daughter, it absolutely

3. gave me a sense of relief."
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