62-Year-Old Man Almost Dies in Police Parking Lot

A man almost died from cardiac arrest in the Westhampton Beach Police Department's parking lot on Tuesday.

According to police, a 62-year-old man from Westhampton Beach, whose name was not released, pulled into the back of the police department, beeping his horn and yelling he was having a heart attack. Lieutenant Trevor Gonce said the man told police he had pain in his chest and tingling in his arms.

Westhampton Beach Village Police Sergeant Thomas Hubbard gave the man oxygen, but he then went into cardiac arrest. A paramedic from the Westhampton War Memorial Ambulance, Brian Danowski, gave the man CPR and was able to revive him, Gonce said.

The man was then transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center, Gonce said.

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