“Sunday’s my victory lap. I’ve done the work. I’m ready for this,” said Randy Feltner last week prior to the Historic Half in Fredericksburg. For Feltner, 39, being alive is a miracle; for three minutes last October 11, he was not.
During a work-out at the gym at Naval Station Warfare Center-Dahlgren Feltner collapsed. He awoke, dazed looking up at his fellow firefighters staring down at him not knowing what had occurred.
Feltner had suffered a heart attack and died. For three minutes he was without a pulse while his coworker, Brent O’Neil, worked on him. O’Neil began CPR immediately followed by the use of an automated external defibrillator. Luckily other members of his fire crew were outside waiting on those who were inside exercising.