51-year-old Richard Hannah was part of a crew installing a new fire alarm system at The Peaks Resort when he hit the ground as the result of a massive heart attack.
“The last thing I remember is working,” Hannah said in an interview with the Planet on Thursday. “The next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital five days later.”
Hannah was saved by one of the 32 public automatic external defibrillators placed throughout the towns of Telluride, Mountain Village, Placerville and even at Society Turn in Lawson Hill.
It was Peaks Director of Security Tom Chaddic, a trained first responder, who saved Hannah’s life.
Hannah was then taken to the Telluride Medical Center, where he was stabilized for a flight to St. Mary’s hospital in Grand Junction.
