Off-Duty Officer Revives Man Suffering Heart Attack in Mt. Sinai

Suffolk police announced Friday evening that an off-duty officer revived an 86-year-old man suffering a heart attack at a store in Mt. Sinai on Friday afternoon.

Police said Lance Prager, an off-duty Emergency Service Section officer who just left training for Advanced Life Support as part of the Suffolk County MedCAT Team, witnessed the elderly man fall to the floor while at Agway on Route 25A in Mt. Sinai. He determined the man had no pulse and wasn't breathing, and started CPR while a store employee retrieved his medical bag from his car.

Sixth Precinct patrol officers Anthony Passarella and Frank Ribaudo arrived to assist Prager by doing compressions and administering a shock with a defibrillator. The elderly victim began breathing on his own, and Port Jefferson Volunteer Ambulance brought him to Mather Memorial Hospital, where he remains in stable condition in the critical care unit.