Seaside Park Lifeguards Praised For Saving Woman's Life

Lifeguards in Seaside Park are credited with saving the life of a woman who had a heart attack on the beach there last week, according to a report.

WOBM.com reports that a lifeguard with the Seaside Park Beach Patrol saw a woman on the Lafayette Avenue beach who appeared to be suffering from heat exhaustion and notified headquarters.

Seaside Park Beach Patrol Captain Mike Veracierta told WOBM that when he arrived on the scene two lifeguards, Sgt. Joe Schafer and Mateuz Warchel, had already started performing CPR.

Veracierta then used an automatic external defibrillator, or AED, to try to shock her heart back into rhythm, he said.

“She was blue, basically stopped breathing, her heart had stopped,” he told WOBM.

Veracierta, Schafer and Warchel kept going until an ambulance arrived, Vericierta said. The woman was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover, he said.

Read more about the rescue here.