Lifesaver honored by mayor & TRAA

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Mayor Tom Henry and the Three Rivers Ambulance Authority paid tribute Thursday to a Fort Wayne woman who saved a man's life.  Henry spoke at an event honoring Patti Davis.

Davis works at the Fort Wayne Community Center.

The gentleman was playing cards at the center when he went into cardiac arrest.  Patti and the other staff members quickly responded to his aid, using an Automatic External Defibrillator to restart his heart.

  "I don't think you think when you do it. You just go and follow and remember your training that we all get here at the Community Center," said Davis.  "You just go through it and hope for the best, and it was the best this time."

The mayor honored Patti with a certificate.

With Patti's initial response and paramedics' expertise, it took only seven minutes to get the man breathing again on his own.