Crime & Safety

Good Samaritans Perform CPR at Commonwealth Ave Panera

Citizens at the Panera Bread location performed CPR and used an automatic defibrillator on a customer having a heart attack.

A Panera Bread customer started showing signs of cardiac arrest at around 7 p.m. tonight, when a good samaritan stepped in and went to work.

According to scanner reports recently received, a citizen took the restaurant's automated external defibrillator device and performed CPR on the poor soul. The fire department and two EMs units arrived on the scene shortly afterward to take over the patient's care. 

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