One of the private vendors had a heart attack today around 4PM. He was standing talking to a friend and just fell backwards, flat on the floor. There were several vendors who are paramedics/EMTs/firefighters during their day jobs, and they were there in no time flat, once people figured out he was in cardiac arrest. They did CPR on him until Hickory FD and paramedics arrived on the scene. At one point, he was not breathing and had no pulse, but with CPR and an AED, he was breathing on his own when they wheeled him out.
He is in the hospital and is talking. Has some cracked ribs from the CPR and a broken arm from when he fell. Glad he is okay. I've known him for several years. Good guy.