Pair honored for lifesaving effort at dealership

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A antheral and a pistillate received designation and an grant Thursday day for their roles successful redeeming different man’s beingness successful October astatine the Midwest Superstore car dealership successful Hutchinson.

Tim Herman was astatine the dealership erstwhile helium went into cardiac arrest. Someone called 911, but Herman needed assistance immediately. Greg Flores, an worker astatine Midwest Superstore, and Britnea Weaver, a caregiver who happened to beryllium astatine the dealership, jumped successful and performed CPR.

The lawman main of Reno County EMS says Herman is live today, acknowledgment to the speedy effect from Flores and Weaver, arsenic good arsenic the Hutchinson Fire Department and EMS. Flores and Weaver recounted what happened connected the time of the aesculapian emergency.

“[Herman’s] successful the backmost of a Tundra (pickup), which is simply a truly large space, truthful I jumped n determination and started giving him thorax compressions due to the fact that I knew determination was thing other that was going to hap due to the fact that helium [had] nary heartbeat, thing happening, helium was blue.”

Weaver described the acquisition of helping to prevention Herman’s beingness arsenic “the fest feeling successful the world,”

Weaver and Flores received The Citizens Lifesaving Award from Reno County EMS and the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. The EMS crews and members of the Hutchinson Fire Department were besides connected hand.

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