Colo. Pizza Deliveryman/Paramedic Saves Life

LAKEWOOD, Colo. --

A woman in Lakewood credits a pizza deliveryman for saving her husband's life.

"The pizza guy saved his life," said Kami Linn, George's wife. "Every doctor and nurse has told me that."

George William Linn IV and his family moved to Lakewood July 9. Linn was having heart problems and was hospitalized last week. He was released on Wednesday.

On Friday night, the Linn family called for pizza. About an hour later, Linn collapsed.

"We are just talking and all of a sudden George said, 'Oh no,' grabs his neck and collapses onto the floor," said Kami.

Kami said she had just dialed 911 when the doorbell rang.

"I don't know why, but I open the door [to] some burly looking dude and I was like, 'help me, come help me'", said Kami. "I didn't care if it was a scrawny teenage. I am like get in here and [the pizza guy] is like, 'I am 'a paramedic'".

"He runs in and immediately does CPR on George who has gone into cardiac arrest and has died," said Kami. "He revived him and got him to breathe again."

The pizza deliveryman, Chris Wuebben, recently took the job at Johnny's New York Pizza in Lakewood. His boss said Wuebben had also just recently moved to Denver and was delivering pizzas until he found a job as a paramedic. Before that, Wuebben was an Emergency Medical Technician in the military and had just returned from Iraq.

The CPR Wuebben peformed worked.

"By the time he had him revived the other paramedics came and took over and said if is wasn't for the pizza guy, who I found out later was Chris, George would have died," Kami said.

Linn's fight isn't over yet. He is in the intensive care unit at Swedish Medical Center. He has an infection in his lungs that is making his heart weak and beat erratically. Once that is tackled, his wife said he should be fine.

"This only happens in movies. I don't know, whatever you want to believe, but I know that things are going to be OK because that never happens," Kami said.

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