Pair honored for lifesaving effort at Hutchinson automotive dealership

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – A person and a girl acquired recognition and an award Thursday afternoon for his or her roles in saving one other man’s life in October on the Midwest Superstore automotive dealership in Hutchinson.

Tim Herman was on the dealership when he went into cardiac arrest. Somebody referred to as 911, however Herman wanted assist instantly. Greg Flores, an worker at Midwest Superstore, and Britnea Weaver, a nurse who occurred to be on the dealership, jumped in and carried out CPR.

The deputy chief of Reno County EMS says Herman is alive at this time, because of the short response from Flores and Weaver, in addition to the Hutchinson Fireplace Division and EMS. Flores and Weaver recounted what occurred on the day of the medical emergency.

“[Herman’s] behind a Tundra (pickup), which is a extremely large area, so I jumped n there and began giving him chest compressions as a result of I knew there was nothing else that was going to occur as a result of he [had] no heartbeat, nothing taking place, he was blue.”

Weaver described the expertise of serving to to avoid wasting Herman’s life as “the fest feeling on the earth,”

Weaver and Flores acquired The Residents Lifesaving Award from Reno County EMS and the Hutchinson Regional Medical Heart. The EMS crews and members of the Hutchinson Fireplace Division had been additionally available.

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