In-Person EMD Brings Life Back to Victim

Members of the View Ridge Community Church in Everett (Wash.) were listening to thank-you talk from Gloria Savinski. The day before, church members had helped her brother, suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease, do household chores, repairs and clean-up. But then Savinski collapsed from a heart attack. Jumping up from her seat, Jackie Davis brought her experience and training into play immediately–she’s an EMD-trained dispatcher at SNOPAC 911. She began giving instructions to the church members–dial 911, begin chest compressions, give rescue breathing. She recalled to a reporter, “It was like I was reading our flip chart at work. I was barking like Ms. Bossy.” EMS units arrived within 4-1/2 minutes and Savinski was taken to a hospital. Read the extraordinary story here, and find out why her co-workers say they are “really proud of her.”