Survival Stories

It was a normal day inside the Culinary Support Center at BYU when all of a sudden workers noticed one of their fellow employees, David Moody, lose consciousness and collapse. The group started CPR immediately, trying hard to get David to breathe on his own. EMTs arrived […]

City Councilwoman Jennifer Gates of Dallas, Texas, saved the life of an elderly man while dining at a restaurant last Monday. She was dining with her husband at a local restaurant when a waiter started asking restaurant patrons if anyone knew CPR; a man was choking near […]

It’s been forty years since Bob McKeeby learned CPR. He was a senior in high school and they were offering classes, so he took one. But he never expected to still remember how to perform the life-saving technique almost four decades later. The man he saved, who […]

Perhaps every parent’s worst nightmare is finding their child unconscious and not breathing. Unfortunately, Marco Ortiz had to experience that. He and his family were getting ready for their weekly Sunday dinner. After taking a quick shower, he went into the living room, only to find his […]

Daycare workers and first-responders worked together to save the life of a three-year old boy in Idaho. It was an average day at the Palouse Hills Day School. The children were playing outside on the playground when the boy suddenly collapsed and stopped breathing. Another child alerted […]

Patti Earfrati is a personal trainer at a fitness center, but she does more than help clients lose weight: she saves their lives. It was a typical day at the gym for Earfrati. She was with a client when she heard “Code Blue” over the gym’s intercom. […]

Brad Golding, a 17-year old soccer player, was warming up on the field when he went into cardiac arrest. Had it not been for the quick thinking of two of his fellow teammates, Golding might not be here today. Sav Ferraro and Kurtis Rae, who had only […]

Kolin Frank was jogging near the marina in Kaneohe, Oahu, when he collapsed. Bystanders started calling for help, which got the attention of Navy medical worker Rachel Arriola. She checked Frank’s pulse, there was none. He was unresponsive, and she was the only one that knew CPR. […]

16-year old Tyler Crane was in gym class when he collapsed. Lucky for him, track coach Rene Plasencia, football coach Michael Short, weightlifting coach Sean Grove, and assistant principal Marc Wasko all assisted in helping to revive Crane. He made a full recovery and was fitted with a defibrillator. […]

Greg Johnson was out for a bike ride when he start feeling dizzy and passed out. Bystanders immediately went over to see what was wrong, but none of them knew what to do. But Dr. John Bowling, a psychology professor at Southern Oregon University, knew that he […]