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The staffer had gone to the Technology Department on the second floor for help with a computer issue when he suffered a medical episode shortly after 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 30, they said.
As fortune would have it, help was right downstairs.
Police Sgt. Eugene Wilkins was conducting a school security walk-through with Class III Officers Michael Foti and Thomas Tully when a staffer came running at 10:40 a.m. Friday, Sept. 30, Old Tappan Police Chief Joseph Tracy said.
They ran to a second-floor office, where they "found the male staff member on the floor unconscious with mild respirations," the chief said.
Students were all sheltered in place, he said.
The staffer had stopped breathing, with no pulse, when a school nurse brought a defibrillator.
"CPR was initiated and one shock was administered," Tracy said.
The staffer then regained consciousness and began breathing on his own, the chief said.
Arriving Norwood EMS members and paramedics from Hackensack University Medical Center arrived took over before he was brought to HUMC, he said.
The shelter-in-place was then lifted and the school day resumed.
"No students were in the office or wing of the school during the entire episode," Tracy said.
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