“It doesn’t take a minute for a kid to disappear in water,” said Sandi Chipman of the Weld EMS.

Fortunately, when 2-year-old Caleb Wenger of Manchester, N.H., disappeared last week, Sue Storer was ready.

She had just renewed her CPR certification in her role as a leader of Girl Scout Troop 2217. She also remembered a key bit of information from the course: search the water before searching the shore for a missing child.

Nobody knew where Caleb had gone, but he was suddenly missing from around the family’s cottage in Lost Cove on the east side of Webb Lake.

Storer had just brought her 16-year-old daughter there to watch the family’s three boys.

“I checked the water, and saw him floating facedown, and I started hollering and pulled him out. Storer then began performing CPR breathing while the boy’s mother, Kristen Wenger, did the chest compressions.

The boy was coming around when Chipman and the ambulance crew arrived. The boy was taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital, then moved to Maine Medical Center in Portland.

“His guardian angels were with him,” Chipman said.

Fortunately, those angels had some training.