Juan Santos poses with first responders, two of whom aided him when he was in cardiac arrest, at the FDNY 24th Annual Second Chance ceremony on Tuesday. (FDNY)
The last time Juan Santos saw Jonathan Rivera, he was lying on his back at his home in the Bronx, and Rivera was standing over him with a defibrillator, shocking his heart back to life.
“Can you imagine?” Santos, 67, said months later. “I got a second chance, I am special.”
Santos met up with Rivera Tuesday under much better circumstances in Brooklyn, where they participated in the FDNY’s annual Second Chance reunion ceremony, which brings together first responders and the people whose lives they helped save.
Rivera, who responded that October day with Paramedic Carrie Boyd, said he was hardly surprised to see how well Santos was doing.
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