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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ellie Hammonds

Firefighter who survived cardiac arrest cycling to work backs campaign for more defibrillators

A firefighter has told how his life was saved by passers-by, the police and paramedics after he collapsed on the street after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Nick Walton, 58, was successfully resuscitated after two members of the public called the police, who used a defibrillator to administer one electric shock, before London Ambulance Service medics arrived and gave him a second shock.

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