Police Officers Hailed As Heroes For Reviving Long Island Woman

Two Long Island police officers are being honored for helping to save a woman in medical distress.

Suffolk County Officers Frederick Reed and Stacey Byrnes helped save a woman who suffered a heart attack.
Photo Credit: *Suffolk County Police Department*

10/14/2022 12:15 p.m.

The incident took place in Holtsville around 5:50 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13.

According to the Suffolk County Police, Officers Frederick Reed and Stacey Byrnes along with the Holbrook Fire Department provided life-saving aid to a woman in medical distress in Holbrook.

Reed and Byrnes responded to a 911 call from a 60-year-old woman suffering from cardiac arrest at her residence on Mews Court, police said.

When they arrived, the woman was found unresponsive and without a pulse. The two began CPR and utilized an Automatic External Defibrillator on the woman and regained a pulse, police added.

Members of the Holbrook Fire Department arrived and continued to provide first aid.

The Holbrook Fire Department transported the woman to Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue where she was admitted for further treatment and is expected to survive.

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