Cops Help Save Life, Recognized In Burlington County

CINNAMINSON, NJ — Two Cinnaminson police officers were recently credited for taking actions that likely saved a woman's life.

Officers Christopher Burk and Kyle Hess were asked to conduct a well-being check on a 75-year-old woman who was inside a car parked at the ShopRite along U.S. Route 130 in the municipality, Cinnaminson Deputy Mayor Ernest McGill said at the July 18 township committee meeting.

Although the woman said she was feeling "weird, she didn't want to go to the hospital but these two guys talked her into it," said at the July 18 township committee meeting.

"Thank God they did because she had suffered a heart attack and ended up getting double bypass surgery," he said. The woman returned home after 27 days in the hospital, he said.

"I'm so thankful these guys to talked her into going to the hospital," McGill added. "They probably saved her life."

Officers Burk and Hess were presented with commendations during the July 18 meeting for the actions McGill described.

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