Delivery Men, Cops Revive N.Y. Heart Attack Victim

Jan. 25--A Suffolk County parks worker who had a heart attack Tuesday morning on a street in Huntington Station was revived by the Cold Spring Harbor Fire Department, Suffolk County police officers and a father and son from Canada making a local delivery, police said.

The unidentified victim had a pulse and was breathing on his own when he was taken to Huntington Hospital shortly after he collapsed at 8:41 a.m., Suffolk County police said.

Daniel Vanasse, 58, and his son, Nicholas Vanasse, 22, from Quebec, were at WPW Growers, 400 W. Pulaski Rd., when the saw the victim lying on the ground across the street, police said.

The son began resuscitation, and the father got someone to call 911, police said. Officer Joshua Parsons arrived and began chest compressions. Officers James Garside and Angela Ferrara initiated advanced life support measures; Officer David Weymouth used a portable defibrillator; and Officer Peter Kiescheuer assisted, police said.

The Cold Spring Harbor Fire Department also responded with a crew of Firefighters Mike Murphy and Daniel Martin and EMT Susan Montovano.

The team of police and fire department staff continued cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts in the ambulance, reestablishing the patient's pulse and breathing while en route to the hospital, said Chris Ingwersen, chief of the Cold Spring Harbor Volunteer Fire Department.

Garside, a Second Precinct patrol officer, was involved in another lifesaving moment Jan. 19 when he helped resuscitate a man, unconscious and barely breathing after overdosing on drugs, who was slumped over the steering wheel in his car. Garside and other off-duty colleagues had been leaving a Brentwood restaurant where they were celebrating getting recertified for advanced cardiac life-support.

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