Mount Airy fire engineer Scotty Wolfe Wolfe had just finished his shift and was running errands when he heard the 911 operator dispatch crews to a job site on Oak Grove Church Road.
Scotty Wolfe the Saviour, Ron Haynes the Survivor
When Wolfe arrived, he found a man lying on the ground who wasn’t breathing and had no pulse, so he began CPR.
A few minutes later, when someone said the man’s name, Wolfe realized he was trying to revive his lifelong friend, Ron Haynes.
“My heart sunk a little bit. My adrenaline rose, and I just kept working,” Wolfe said.
Workers witnessed Haynes, 34, fall to the ground after being electrocuted when he tried to plug in a fan to dry newly poured concrete.
After 12 minutes of performing CPR, a shock to Haynes’ heart from a defibrillator brought him back to life.
“I was an emotional wreck. I cried,” Wolfe said as the ambulance raced his friend to Wake Forest Baptist University Medical Center.
Wolfe said he was scared Haynes might not make it. “I could see his little boy like mine growing up without a father,” said Wolfe.
Haynes described what happened a miracle and said he’s thankful to have such a great friend.
“I told him if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be here that’s for sure, ” said Haynes.
