Landon Strelko, a host at Pine Grill for the last year and a half, said he came to work March 12 and was having a normal day, but that quickly changed.
“I was just in the kitchen doing to-go’s and I came back and the waitress for the man over there was yelling if anyone knew CPR,” Strelko said.
Strelko said he became CPR certified just two days prior.
“We went over to just get him out of the booth, check for a pulse, check to see if he’s breathing,” Strelko said. “He wasn’t breathing, so I just get everything out of the way that was covering me doing chest compressions. We got him breathing again and by that time the paramedics were there.”
He says he learned CPR because it was offered to him for unrelated work at the Somerset County Technology Center.
“I take electrical at SCTC and it was an option on whether you wanted to get CPR training or not because in electrical if anyone gets shocked it’s good to know CPR,” Strelko said.
“I wasn’t planning on using it. No, I wasn’t ready for that,” Strelko said. “Everyone was pretty much in shock and didn’t really know what to do. I just had to do what you got to do.”
The owner of Pine Grill said that paramedics told him the quick action of Strelko saved the man's life and that he is doing better.
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