MINUTES MATTER: Three Bystanders Save Woman's Life - Two Agree to be Recognized for Heroic Actions

GREENFIELD - On Wednesday, the Greenfield Fire Department honored two bystanders who happened to be in the right place at the right time to help save someone's life.

The Incident

On June 4, a woman began choking on her breakfast from McDonald's at 27th St. and Coldspring Rd. and ended up losing consciousness. She had just ordered, and began eating in her vehicle when part of a breakfast burrito became lodged in her throat.

She was in the car at the time, and her family moved her from the vehicle to the median of the road and began waving down travelers for help.

Three bystanders - two nurses and a We Energies employee who was in the area for work, saw the family attempting to wave people down, and stopped to help.

According to authorities, the citizen responders performed the Heimlich maneuver while the woman still had a pulse. Unfortunately, the food remained lodged, and the woman started to lose her pulse.

Critical care was urgently needed, and the responders initiated CPR. After about 18 compressions, the woman started breathing again and regained her pulse.

Greenfield Firefighters and Paramedics arrived on the scene and transported the woman to the hospital. She is alive today because of the heroic actions of those who stopped to deliver life-saving care.

Recognized

The Greenfield Fire Department recognized two of the three citizen responders: Brian Tabbert, a We Energies employee, and Anna Campion, a nurse, who worked with the third repsonder to help save the woman's life.

Greenfield Fire Department officials say that minutes matter, and encourage everyone to learn CPR so you can help in times of emergency - whenever they appear.