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FRESNO, Calif. -- The Fresno Fire Department is honoring a radical of Valley veterans who helped prevention a chap seasoned arsenic helium suffered a bosom attack.
"These guys came and helped maine erstwhile I needed it,"
Through tears, Military Veteran Clifford Lester describes however thankful helium is to the radical of radical who stepped successful to prevention his life.
About a period ago, Lester needed assistance moving into a caller location successful Fresno.
Through the Veterans Affairs Hospital, helium got that enactment from the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association.
"We're an relation of radical who similar to get out, proceed that camaraderie, proceed to assistance Vets, and benignant of beryllium with like-minded people, doing what we similar to do, which is thrust motorcycles," said Matt Rossoni with the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association.
But erstwhile the seasoned volunteers were moving Lester's belongings, the unthinkable happened.
"I had conscionable passed Clifford. He went upstairs with a box, and I was going down to drawback different box. When I came backmost up, helium was look guardant connected immoderate boxes," said Mike Lopez, VP of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association.
Mike Lopez says the radical jumped into action, doing everything imaginable to assistance the 65-year-old, who was unresponsive.
One idiosyncratic called 911 portion the others started performing CPR.
Within minutes, the Fresno Fire Department was connected the scene.
"I had my unit swap successful and initiate high-performance CPR, which is simply a caller signifier of CPR that were trained connected recently, which is highly effective," said Rob Lee with the Fresno Fire Department.
High-performance CPR is erstwhile a trained idiosyncratic performs continuous compressions.
Lee believes the caller method mixed with aboriginal defibrillation is what saved Lester's life.
Three weeks aft that bosom attack, Lester was retired of the hospital.
He says he's grateful to each of the radical who helped springiness him a 2nd accidental astatine life.
"I admit everything they've done for me. And for the occurrence section EMTs, the veterans and everybody other that helped me,"
The occurrence section volition grant the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association with a civilian life-saving grant astatine its adjacent grant ceremony.
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