Tennessee Firefighters’ CPR Video Helps Minnesota Rescuers

Rescuers trying to aid a man who collapsed at a Minnesota park were able to administer CPR properly thanks to one man’s recollection of a training video created by Chattanooga (TN) firefighters.

The Times Free Press reported (http://bit.ly/1pPOLH4) that Scott Matson and his girlfriend Mitzi Kellar were among the people attempting to resuscitate a man who’d collapsed while dancing at a Coon Rapids park.

The would-be rescuers weren’t having much success until Matson recalled a video filmed by Chattanooga firefighters to the beat of the Bee-Gees song “Stayin’ Alive.”

Kellar, who works as a 911 dispatcher, was able to later find out that their efforts were not in vain: the report indicated the heart-attack victim, whose care had been taken over medics, was recovering.

Read the entire story at http://bit.ly/1pPOLH4.

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