The dramatic moment a student armed with a portable defibrillator (AED) saved an assistant coach’s life after he had a heart attack was captured on video.
Newly released surveillance video shows the moment 17-year-old Nicole Fruscella rushes into the Twinsburg Fitness center in Ohio to aid Assistant Track Coach Chuck Glover after he collapsed while working out last October.
‘I put the weights on the floor and was waiting between sets to start my second set and that’s all she wrote,’ he told Fox8.
Assistant Track Coach Chuck Glover suffered a massive heart attack while working out last October at the Twinsburg Fitness center in Ohio
Glover, who goes by ‘Coach G’ at Twinsburg High School, had suffered a massive heart attack, with nearly 100 per cent blockage in a main artery, he said.
Nicole, a lifeguard at the gym, was doing her homework nearby when she got an urgent call from her manager telling her to rush to the fitness center and bring an AED.
Although Nicole had never used the life-saving equipment, she was trained for it and it only took her two minutes to reach the coach and get the AED ready.
The video shows Nicole running to Glover’s aid in the weight-training area of the gym while carrying the AED.
Lifeguard Nicole Fruscella, 17, was doing her homework nearby when she got an urgent call and rushed to Glover’s aid armed with an AED
Although Nicole had never used the life-saving equipment, she was trained for it and it only took her two minutes to reach the coach and get the AED ready
‘We got it ready and we put it on him and we shocked him,’ Fruscella said, according to Fox8.
Glover was then rushed to the hospital by paramedics and he had surgery. Nicole’s response time could have well been the factor that saved his life.
‘There was an angel sitting on my shoulder that afternoon and her name is Nicole,’ a teary-eyed Glover told Fox8.
‘There was an angel sitting on my shoulder that afternoon and her name is Nicole,’ a teary-eyed Glover told Fox8
The coach (pictured right) said he works three times a week and has a healthy diet, but does have a family history of heart disease
Nicole said she hopes she doesn’t have to save a life again but is happy to know she’s qualified to do if if she has to
‘Everybody throws the word hero around and hero means different things to different people. She’s beyond hero, she’s an angel.’
The coach said he works three times a week and has a healthy diet, but does have a family history of heart disease. He advised others to get checked by a doctor.
As for Nicole, she said she hopes she doesn’t have to save a life again but is happy to know she’s qualified to do if if she has to.
‘Whenever I look back on that day I’m just taken back. I’m like wow, I’m seventeen, I’ve already saved a person’s life. Not everybody gets to say that in their life,’ she said.