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By Karen Parkinson
Public information Specialist CCPS
Three students from George Washington Carver-Piedmont Technical Education Center saved a stranger’s life Saturday, April 25, at the Civic Center in Roanoke, where the students had been participating in skills competition.
Travis Dodson, 17, Jerome Meehan, 16, and Ronnie Baker, 17, sprang into action when a woman suffered cardiac arrest just moments after an awards ceremony ended at the annual state Vocational and Industrial Clubs of America skills competition.
The three teenagers were chatting with friends around 8:45 p.m. when Dodson became aware of the emergency outside the Civic Center and yelled for Meehan and Baker.
“I was in the entrance way of the Civic Center,” explained Dodson, a senior at Rappahannock County High School, “and all of a sudden a woman came past me yelling, “Emergency, emergency. I need to use the phone. I’ve got to call 911!” Being a rescue person (as a junior member of Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue) I thought maybe I could help so I walked over there and asked the person what was the emergency. She said her mother was having a heart attack ... I called Jay and Ronnie and told them to come over with me.”
They found the woman on a bench slumped over in her husband’s arms outside the Civic Center; she was unresponsive to their questions. As a number of VICA competitors and instructors looked on the three students took charge of an emergency situation.
“When I ran up, the lady had a slight pulse
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