Lt. Danielle Frye,a fire marshal for Loudoun County, was driving along Edwards Ferry Road near Woodberry Road when she noticed a vehicle driving erratically.
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When the vehicle stopped, Frye noticed the driver, Terry McCaffrey, of Leesburg, was slouched over the wheel unconscious.
Officer Mirza Kadric saw the stopped vehicle and thought it was a traffic accident, so he stopped.
When he realized that 7-year-old Leesburg man McCaffrey was unconscious, Kadric radioed dispatch for assistance and helped Frye pull him onto the road.
The two noticed McCaffrey wasn’t breathing and did not have a pulse, so they began CPR – Kadric giving chest compressions while Frye gave rescue breaths.
Leesburg Police Sgt. T.J. Moore heard the call from the police station and responded with an Automated External Defibrillator.
When Moore arrived, Frye thought about the snow on the ground and placed her coat under McCaffrey so he would be dry while they used the defibrillator on him.
Kadric and Frye placed the wires on McCaffrey’s chest, while Moore operated the machine.
The defibrillator took McCaffrey’s readings and advised that Moore administer a shock, so he did.
McCaffrey’s heart started beating just as an ambulance arrived to take him to Inova Loudoun Hospital.
He is expected to make a full recovery from his heart attack.
Frye, Kadric and Moore said that during the incident, what they had learned in training completely took over.
“It was almost like a thoughtless process,” Moore said.
Frye said that after McCaffrey’s heart started beating, she felt “a sense of awe that it worked.”
“It’s good to see that side of helping somebody,” Kadric said.
“It feels good to save somebody’s life, but it’s what we do,” Moore said, adding that he felt a sense of relief when he heard the ambulance arrive.
