Off-Duty Westborough Firefighter Helped Save Man In Cardiac Arrest

Westborough MA

14 June, 2022

12:57 PM

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WESTBOROUGH, MA — A Westborough firefighter is being credited with helping save a man's life during an event in Boston in May. According to the fire department, paramedic and firefighter Bailey Correia was at the event on May 31 along with an off-duty Foxborough firefighter and a nurse watching a volleyball game when one of the players suddenly collapsed in cardiac arrest Correia began CPR, and then used an automated external defibrillator machine — also called an AED — to attempt to restart the man's heart. The interventions worked, and the man was taken to a Boston hospital where he recovered, according to the Westborough Fire Department. "Thank you Firefighter Correia for your actions that contributed to saving a life," the department said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.