We will be reporting on lives saved around the world since our first documented life saved here in Singapore.
Matt Fiato’s hockey team was trailing by a goal. From the bench, he glanced at the clock, then turned to a teammate to complain about something in the game.
Matt Fiato and Family
“The next thing I knew, I was on the floor of the bench looking up,” said Fiato, 40, a father of three children ages 6, 8 and 11.
Fiato, who lives in Binghamton, said he was lucky to be at the BCC rink because it has a defibrillator, and several trained emergency medical technicians happened to be involved in the league. One of them, 19-year-old Dave Edwards, delivered the life-saving shock after rink employee Brett Carter retrieved the device.
Honestly, it’s an indescribable feeling to know I saw this guy die laying in front of me and to bring him back,” said Edwards, an EMT with the Apalachin Fire Department. “It makes you kind of feel like you did make a difference in somebody’s life.”
To his wife, Patti, the AED, along with the good Samaritans at the rink that night, are her husband’s guardian angels.
