RARITAN, New Jersey (WABC) A good Samaritan and three police officers are being hailed as heroes after they revived a man who suffered a heart attack in New Jersey on Valentine s Day.
Authorities say Raritan patrol officers responded to the Castillo Seafood Market on East Somerset Street for a 52-year-old Hillsborough man who was unconscious.
Sgt. Everett Holt and officers Christopher Hirsch and Andrew Ragati arrived on scene within a minute of the call to find Raritan resident Megan Milota performing CPR on the victim.
Authorities say Milota was a customer and had been performing CPR since the man collapsed.
Woman’s quick thinking and CPR training helps save man’s life on Valentine’s Day
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Megan Milota had just entered Castillo Fresh Seafood Market in Raritan Borough around 5:30 p.m. on Valentine’s Day when she saw an unconscious man lying on the floor.
A woman working at the restaurant was on the phone with 911, Milota recalled, and when the dispatcher asked her if she knew CPR, the woman replied she did not.
“That’s when I said, ‘I’m actually a CPR instructor,’” Milota told NJ Advance Media. “I took his pulse and started doing compressions.”