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PodcastThe SaveStation now allows the community to access the AED when seconds count.
“I got past the finish line, went through the finish gate, grabbed a banana, took one bite, sat on the bench, and my eyes started twirling and the light switch went out,” said John Hrinda, the walker who suffered cardiac arrest while at FNB Field.
“Somebody was yelling that there was a cardiac arrest, so I immediately grabbed my office key that was in my pocket, sprinted up to unlock the gate, turned the alarm off, ran in, grabbed the AED, and sprinted back down,” said Jessica Moyer, a Special Events Coordinator for the Senators who saved Hrinda’s life using an AED. “It’s the fastest I’ve run I think, in my lifetime.”
The SaveStation now allows the community to access the AED without a key, because when it comes to cardiac arrest, seconds count.
The Peyton Walker Foundation advocates for providing CPR training and providing AEDs in memory of Trinity High School graduate Peyton Walker, who died in 2013 after she experienced a sudden cardiac arrest.
“Somebody was yelling that there was a cardiac arrest, so I immediately grabbed my office key that was in my pocket, sprinted up to unlock the gate, turned the alarm off, ran in, grabbed the AED, and sprinted back down.”