Officer Honored for Saving Man's Life

Collier Township police Officer Dan Elway saved a man's life while vacationing in Florida this summer.

Collier Township police Officer Dan Elway was just minding his own business enjoying the last day of his vacation by the swimming pool in Florida earlier this summer when he heard a woman start to scream nearby. Elway immediately jumped into action and helped pull the woman's fiancé out of the water at the pool in Key Largo. The man wasn't breathing, so Elway did what he was trained to do: He started administering CPR. It was the first time he'd used that training in 10 years of being a police officer. "He was blueish-grey, no breathing, no pulse,” Elway said. “I checked him for about 10 seconds and he didn't have a pulse so I began CPR. I did it for about two minutes and it didn't look good, so I just kept going until the paramedics …

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