Girl drowns in Independence motel swimming pool

If any good came from the drowning of a teenage girl Saturday in an Independence motel swimming pool, it may be found in the actions of Marc Langiano and several others.
The bad news is that Renee Krato, of Florissant, Mo., died at Children’s Mercy Hospital. She was 16 years old.
Krato drowned in a pool at the Motel 6 on the 4200 block of Noland Road.
Her organs will be donated, said a family member on Monday evening, who didn’t want to be identified. Krato was taken off life support, the person said.
Those organs are fresh because of Langiano’s actions in bringing Krato back to life.
Langiano, 45, had an appointment at the Veteran’s Hospital in Kansas City.
A 10-year U.S. Army veteran, he served as a flight paramedic. He regularly flew on Blackhawk helicopters.
He suffered a lung injury while doing an in-flight training exercise. More lung complications followed, resulting in him losing part of his right lung.
He was set for the drive back to Springfield, Mo., where he lives, on Saturday. The problem was his car. The tire kept going flat and needed to be replaced.
The repair shop did not have the right size tire and they couldn’t get to it until later that night.
He decided to stay the night at the Motel 6 and drive back on Sunday.
It was around 9 p.m.
Suddenly, he heard a girl screaming for help.
He ran outside toward the hotel’s pool, where the yelling was coming from.
“This blond female was running toward me saying someone’s dead in the pool,” Langiano said. 
He rushed to the pool and saw it for himself: a young girl floating face down.
Krato was floating in the shallow area of the pool near the edge. Langiano used the pool’s steps to enter the water that came only to his knees.
He scooped her up and out of the water and placed her on her back.
Krato had no pulse. She wasn’t breathing.
He started CPR. At this time, a crowd had gathered at the pool.
One man in the crowd stepped in to help. He was a operating room technician. “I directed him to do mouth-to-mouth while I did chest compressions,” Langiano said.
Langiano then started picking people from the crowd to help. He told someone to make sure 911 was called, another to find management to see if they had emergency tools like a defibrillator or bag valve mask.
“They (motel) didn’t have any of that, so it was just basic CPR,” he said.
Some in the crowd were screaming. Some just stood frozen, mesmerized about what they were watching.
Langiano kept pressing on her chest.
Langiano, after the military service, worked as a paramedic in Springfield and St. Louis for years. His experience in similar situations kicked in. “It’s kinda like riding a bike. You never forget.”
Paramedics arrived. They told Langiano that she had a pulse.
“At one point, she was trying to breath on her own,” he recalled.
When they loaded her in the ambulance, Langiano wondered how long Krato had been submerged in the water. How long had her brain been deprived of oxygen, he asked himself.
“That concerned me,” he said.
Langiano heard from Krato’s family that her liver will be donated to a teenage girl who is needing one.
Independence police determined the drowning was accidential. It’s unclear why she drowned.