POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — Two EMTs had to push a patient uphill on a cot after their ambulance broke down 300 yards shy of the hospital entrance.
11alive reported that resident Manny Piri was working on his lawn in the afternoon heat last Wednesday when he went back inside his home and had a heart attack.
EMTs Vicki Borgia and Chris Gudaitis responded to the call and were on their way to the hospital when their ambulance stopped, according to the report.
“It must have been some type of engine failure, I’m not sure,” Gudaitis said. “I looked up the hill, and my initial thought was, ‘That’s a very long way.’ We decided as a team to pull that man up the hill.”
With the next ambulance minutes way, both EMTs took Piri uphill and got him to the operating room in just enough time to save his life, according to the report.
“They’ll say it’s part of their job and everything, but they kind of went above and beyond their job, pushing me up that hill,” Piri said.