April 24, 2017 |
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Metro-North Employees Commended for Saving Colleague’s Life Receive Special Recognition from Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti |
Metro-North employees are all heart! MTA Metro-North Railroad today announced that five of its employees were recognized for saving a colleague who suffered a heart attack at the railroad’s Brewster Yard last month. Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti thanked the employees for their swift thinking and compassion at today’s meeting of the MTA Board’s Metro-North Railroad Committee. The day was winding down for Jeff Ballard, a Brewster Yardmaster who resides in New Milford, Connecticut. He was typing in a few final figur |
Dave - I don’t know what you did in posting the above article, however it appears the right side has been truncated by a word or two.
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Metro-North employees are all heart! MTA Metro-North Railroad today announced that five of its employees were recognized for saving a colleague who suffered a heart attack at the railroad’s Brewster Yard last month. Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti thanked the employees for their swift thinking and compassion at today’s meeting of the MTA Board’s Metro-North Railroad Committee.
The day was winding down for Jeff Ballard, a Brewster Yardmaster who resides in New Milford, Connecticut. He was typing in a few final figures at his computer before leaving for the day when a co-worker and colleague (who has asked that his identity remain private), asked him, “What does it feel when you’re having a heart attack?” Ballard, who worked for 20 years as an Emergency Medical Technician before coming to Metro-North, swiveled his chair around and looked at his colleague. “He was gripping his chest; his glasses were off, and he looked ashen. He told me that he was in a lot of pain, had shortness of breath and that he’d killed half a roll of Rolaids in twenty minutes,” said Ballard.
Ballard took his colleague’s pulse and recognized that he was having a heart attack. Wasting no time, Ballard gave him aspirin, which is considered helpful at the time of a heart attack. He i