How to save a life.

Another nutty baby story out of Florida, but with a happy ending thanks to an alert clerk:

By Andrew Marra
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

A Shell gas station cashier revived a newborn baby early Sunday after snatching her blue and motionless from the arms of her dazed mother — minutes after the mother gave birth to her in the gas station's bathroom.

Looking dazed and in pain, the mother had walked into the Shell station near Palm Beach Gardens shortly before 5 a.m. and asked for the key to the bathroom, cashier Tammy Camp recalled Monday.

When she didn't come out after several minutes, Camp knocked on the door and asked if she was OK. The woman said she was fine.

Minutes later, Camp and two co-workers saw the woman walking back to her car with her coat in her arms. Camp noticed the woman was bleeding heavily and asked what had happened.

"She said, 'I had a baby. The baby's dead,' " Camp said.

Camp, 42, looked down and saw that the woman, apparently in shock, had wrapped the girl in her coat and was trying to put her in the trunk.

Camp grabbed the baby, blue-skinned and facedown in the coat, and immediately tried to revive her. She cleared the newborn's airway with her finger and massaged her chest with her fingers. Then she called 911.

Inside the gas station again, she pumped the baby's arms and legs, and eventually the baby started crying and turning red. She was breathing again.

Within minutes, Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue workers arrived. They transported the mother and her baby to St. Mary's Medical Center.