A seven-year-old schoolgirl was hailed a hero when she saved her grandad's life after he suffered a serious stroke.
Little Evie Tierney didn't blink when her beloved family member suddenly collapsed in front of her.
She was spending the night at George's house when he fell unwell, the Liverpool Echo reports.
But the girl didn't panic and called her mum before 999 - placing her grandad into the recovery position and followed the instructions of the call handler to the letter.
Evie, now eight, spoke to parent Chantelle who advised her on the next steps.
She made sure he didn't swallow his tongue until paramedics arrived at his home in Netherton, Merseyside.
Without the instinctive actions of the little girl, Chantelle doesn't think he would still be alive.
The 31-year-old mum-of-three said she couldn't believe how Evie reacted last February - and thinks it would have been a very different story had she not been there.
Chantelle said: "My dad was such an active man. He used to do everything for me and my kids, and I mean everything. One night Evie was staying with him and she called me about 8pm saying 'something's happened to grandad he can't move'.
"Then I heard him in the background making a horrible noise and she said 'mummy, I'm going to phone an ambulance'. Then she put the phone down.
"When I got there she was on the phone to the ambulance, she was only seven. When I got in he was in a state I can't describe, it was almost like he was melting into the floor.
"How she even looked at him and held it together is unbelievable.
"She not only did that, she had him on his side in the recovery position and she was pulling his tongue out of his mouth so he wouldn't choke.
"I couldn't believe it. When the paramedics got there they even said without Evie being there he wouldn't be alive.
"They said normally, in situations like that, little children panic and don't know what to do but with Evie, I don't know what it was but it all kicked in and she just did everything she could."
One year on from the stroke, the 66-year-old grandad now needs Chantelle to care for him and her children in a full-time capacity.
