Watch: Summit Police Save Unconscious Man At Repair Shop

SUMMIT, NJ — After Summit police got a call on Dec. 3 about an unresponsive employee at a local repair shop, they rushed to action, ultimately saving his life — and it was all caught on their video (below).

The first officer to respond, Gerald McDermott, saw that the 53-year-old man had no vital signs.

"I've been on multiple CPR calls, and there's a look a patient has when they're in cardiac arrest," McDermott explains in the video.

"It came out as originally an unconscious male, and got upgraded to a CPR in progress," says Officer Collin Scarpello, who arrived and helped officer Christopher Walsh use a defibrillator (AED) to try to restore the man's normal heart rhythms.

The Summit First Aid Squad took the man to Overlook Hospital, where he is expected to recover. "Unfortunately, a lot of these calls don't end that way," says Scarpello.

"I would just like to extend my well wishes to the gentleman and his family and wish them a happy, healthy 2021," McDermott says.

(To see a video of Summit officers saving a baby from choking on vitamins this past July, click here.)

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