Contact Station:  |   |  Girl's Text Messages Save Grandfather's Life Man Goes Into Cardiac Arrest POSTED: 12:05 pm EDT July 27, 2005 UPDATED: 12:11 pm EDT July 27, 2005 HICKSVILLE, N.Y. -- A 9-year-old girl is credited with saving her grandfather by sending a text message with her cell phone. Slideshow: FeedRoom Joe Barella, 78, had just lost his wife. His granddaughter, Brooklyn Levinson, 9, was sleeping over at his home last weekend to keep him company. At breakfast he became unresponsive. "I thought he was crying because my grandmother passed away, and thought I should give him a moment," Brooklyn said. But Barella wasn't deep in thought -- he was in cardiac arrest. Brooklyn didn't know what was happening, so she shot off concerned text messages to her mother. She also sent video recorded by the cell phone of Barella slumped over his

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