On the morning of December 11, Bryan Vogt, Todd Hennessy, and Eric Kapitan were headed back to their Parker fire station from a cardiac arrest call.
Eric was driving, and Bryan and Todd were in the back seat. They all had headsets on, and started to hear an unmistakable sound.
"Todd was snoring on the headset," said Kapitan.
He aws about to joke about how his fellow firefighter could fall asleep when they were minutes from the station, when Vogt realized he was drooling and didn't have a pulse.
“It just happened like that, hit him like a ton of bricks," said Vogt.
Hennessy remembers seeing the American Furniture Warehouse and then waking up on the grass on Peoria Avenue.
Vogt and Kapitan did CPR and shocked Hennessy with an AED.
"I was not happy," said Hennessy when he woke up. I was confused.”
His heart had almost stopped and Vogt and Kapitan saved him.
“That was my first shift," said Vogt.
The 26-year-old had started with South Metro a day before.
"I can’t imagine being in his shoes," said Hennessy. "It’s his first day and the guy sittin’ next to him is the one he’s working on."
Doctors don't know what caused his cardiac arrest, but he'll be back on the job soon.
"The work we do is all over the board, but couldn't imagine doing it with other people," Hennessy said.
