A Husker fan meets the people who restarted his heart at Memorial Stadium
Wayne Howell collapsed at the September 5 game in Lincoln. Bystander CPR, Red Cross volunteers with an AED, and Lincoln Fire and Rescue revived him, and he met them again.
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Wayne Howell collapsed in the stands at Memorial Stadium during the September 5 Nebraska game, and the people who helped him have now met him again, the Lincoln Journal Star reported, in an account carried by the York News-Times. Strangers started CPR. American Red Cross volunteers used an automated external defibrillator. Lincoln Fire and Rescue took over care and got him back.
The reunion is the news: a fan and the chain of people who acted in the seats and on the way to the hospital. The report is about that one afternoon and the meeting that followed. It is not a claim about every cardiac arrest in a stadium.
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