VIDEO: Two off-duty firefighters were in the right place at the right time on Wednesday, helping save a man's life after he went into cardiac arrest while running along John Nolen Drive.
By chance, firefighter spouses Sue Juedes and Chelsea Utzerath took a different route on their day off when they came across the man lying on the ground and several people around him.
"We could see there's a man lying on the sidewalk and we were like, uh-oh," Juedes recalled.
The duo then sprang into action, despite the fact they were in civilian clothes and not on the clock. They found the man was not breathing, which they related to dispatch.
"We figured we ended up doing about four minutes of CPR, but the urgency of the response went up once the dispatcher was able to give that information to our emergency medical team," Juedes, a lieutenant with the Madison Fire Department, said.