VIDEO: A Valley man and his family met with the Mesa Fire and Medical team that helped save his life after he went into cardiac arrest.
Albert Meade ran the Mesa Marathon back in February and made it all the way to the finish line and accepted his medal.
“I remember kind of going down to my knees because I was trying to catch my breath and then I remember standing up and basically blacking out, like I don't remember anything up to that point,” Meade recalled. Scott Higgins, the captain paramedic with Mesa Fire and Medical, said they noticed Albert falling backward after he received his medal.
“Looked like he was having a seizure,” Higgins said. “I checked for a pulse as we were wheeling him toward the ambulance, and I didn't feel a pulse.”
Higgins said after eight compressions and other life-saving treatments, they noticed Meade was breathing.