Reedley High School staff save parent during heart attack

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- An day of watching shot astatine Reedley High School past week, turned into a literal bosom stopping lawsuit for 1 parent.

"Every 2nd matters erstwhile it comes to CPR and cardiac arrest," said Victor Yost, a certified diversion trainer astatine Reedley High.

Staff accidental erstwhile a antheral had a bosom attack, everyone took enactment to effort and prevention his life.

That includes Nick Underwood, who is the aquatics manager for Reedley High and is besides a firefighter with the Fresno Fire Department.

"I identified myself arsenic an off-duty firefighter, and ended up taking implicit thorax compressions," recalled Underwood.

"We ended up yet shocking the patient, and restarting his heart, and by the clip we got him to the ambulance, helium had a pulse backmost and we were conscionable assisting with breathing astatine that point."

Underwood says helium ne'er expected his 2 worlds to collide.

"No, I was conscionable ace excited to really beryllium connected the excavation platform and to assistance someone, and was not expecting it to hap that day," said Underwood.

The school's marque caller automated outer defibrillator, oregon AED, that they were capable to usage connected the diligent wrong a substance of minutes, besides made a difference.

"I had conscionable received the 1 that was expected to question with maine to antithetic locations, oregon question with maine connected my golfcart present astatine the precocious school, astir 2 hours anterior to the incident," said Yost.

Yost, says it's a infinitesimal you ever hole for but anticipation to ne'er person to enactment to use.

"We're trained for it, its conscionable that erstwhile it really happens, its benignant of caput blowing, that we were determination for him," said Yost.

Not lone were they capable to prevention the man's life, for Underwood, helium was besides capable to get much imaginable aboriginal heroes.

"I person a fistful connected my squad close present that are looking to go a firefighter successful the future," said Underwood.

"It was large to beryllium capable to propulsion distant that the basal CPR is important, and its 1 of the main roles successful our job, truthful it was truly bully to beryllium capable to amusement that to them."

The genitor is inactive successful the infirmary but helium is recovering.

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