FDNY EMS Saves Cardiac Arrest Patient in Brooklyn

FDNY paramedics and EMTs saved the life of a 50-year-old man who went into cardiac arrest in Brooklyn on May 13.

At around 9:15 a.m. EMTs Nelson Rivera and Franklin Rodriguez arrived on the scene at around 9:15 a.m. and found a traffic agent doing mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing on a man on the street.

They found the man to have no pulse, so they began doing CPR until Paramedics Ray Nirrengarten and Howard Auerbach arrived on the scene.

The FDNY EMS members inserted a tube to help the victim breathe, shocked his chest to restart his heart, hooked up a cardiac monitor and administered drugs.

They then transported him to Wycoff Hospital in stable condition.

Yet when asked how it felt to save a life, the EMS members remained humble.

“It’s just part of our job,” said Paramedic Nirrengarten.

EMT Rodriguez agreed: “It was good, but it’s what we do every day.”