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POCATELLO — A police officer and emergency dispatcher are being credited with saving the life of a man who nearly died early Saturday morning from a massive heart attack.
Patrolman Tyler Anderson and dispatcher Diana Rich, both members of the Pocatello Police Department, are being called heroes for their actions.
The situation began to unfold when Rich answered a 911 phone call to the Police Department around 2:20 a.m. Saturday. A woman was on the other end of the phone reporting that she had just found her 65-year-old husband unconscious, not breathing and without a pulse in a chair in the couple’s living room.
“I told her to start CPR,” said Rich, who’s been with the Police Department for the past seven years. “I told her to do whatever she could to pull him off the chair and lay him flat on his back. Then I walked her through the CPR instructions that we have.”
