PNE staff members awarded for life-saving actions – BC [Video]

Three PNE staff members are being commended for their actions that saved a man’s life.

On Feb. 16, 2022, PNE staff member Mike Nasr helped a man playing in an adult drop-in hockey game at the Agrodome.

The man was experiencing chest pain.

Nasr came to the man’s aid, gave him some medication, and stayed with him until BC Emergency Health Service paramedics arrived.

Two years later on Feb. 21, 2024, at another adult drop-in hockey game, a player suffered a sudden cardiac arrest just after leaving a dressing room.

Nasr and three bystanders, Michelle Preston, Matt Heffring and Brad Wilson, worked together to “save the life” of the man, BC Emergency Health Services said.

PNE operational health and safety officer Mark Knowles arrived with one of the PNE’s on-site automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Nasr administered the AED, restoring the patient’s pulse.

During this time, PNE security officer Harj Sandhu stayed on the phone with 911 …