Heroes: Northvale EMS Workers Revive 84-Year-Old Heart Attack Victim

An 84-year-old heart attack victim was revived by Northvale Volunteer Ambulance workers as they rushed him to the hospital.

Members of Ambulance 226.
Photo Credit: *COURTESY: Northvale Volunteer Ambulance Corps*

Jerry DeMarco

12/23/2018 11:46 a.m.

The victim fell to the ground at Paris Avenue and Franklin Street around 6 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.

Northvale police, firefighters and members of the Volunteer Ambulance Corps quickly arrived.

Members of Ambulance 226 shocked the victim with a defibrillator on the way to Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood and got his pulse and breathing going again.

A hospital ambulance met them there and took the man – conscious and alert – to Hackensack University Medical Center.

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