She gave the kiss of life to Leanne, who had suffered a fit and was not breathing, and brought her round before paramedics took over. Gemma has been given a commendation by ambulance chiefs who were amazed by her actions at the family home on Devonshire Road, Atherton, Wigan.
Gemma, a hairdressing student, put the dramatic rescue down to a 'sixth sense'. She said: "I just got this feeling to check on her. So I went up to the bathroom and she was under the water. At first I thought she was washing her hair or playing a trick. But when I lifted her head out of the water she had turned blue. I knew she had had a fit."
The teenager dragged her sister's lifeless body out of the bath and went to work. "She weighed a ton. I called 999 and then started CPR on her. She started making some horrible noises, like a truck, and I knew she was coming round. Then she said she was going to be sick."
Gemma says she learned what to do on a First Aid training course and now believes they should be compulsory. "Everyone should be made to do it," she said. "You never know when someone is going to need it."
Leanne was in no doubt that she owed her life to her sister. She said: "She was really brave and if it was the other way around I don't think I'd have been able to have done it - I'd have probably started crying."
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