Responding to a call for a man who had fallen, the twins quickly found themselves working together to save his life as he went into cardiac arrest.
LIFE SAVERS: Steve and Angie say it was "special" to save someone's life while working together
Steve, an emergency medical technician and his sister, Angie Mills, a 999 call handler, both work for the London Ambulance Service, but they don't usually work in such close proximity. Recently, while Angie was shadowing a frontline crew, the siblings had the unique opportunity to work side by side. “It feels even more special because I was doing it with Steve. My CPR was so effective because I felt so comfortable doing it next to my brother, and we are so close,” Angie said, adding,"Steve kept saying to me, ‘you’re doing a great job, the timing is perfect, the depth of the compressions is great’."
For the pair, it was a poignant moment as they had lost their father, Hugh, to cardiac arrest when he was 61, a similar age to the man they had just saved."The fact that the man we saved was relatively young and of a similar age to our dad when he passed away brought back some powerful memories," she added.
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