On the side of a busy South Philadelphia intersection, Officer Dennis Smith went to work trying to save two lives-- Mark Kauffman's wife, Sarah, and their unborn daughter.
A Philadelphia police officer didn't miss a beat when a frantic husband flagged him down to help his wife, who had suddenly gone into cardiac arrest behind the wheel.
"All of a sudden my wife grabbed my leg and said, 'Mark.' Frantically, I looked over, 'I'm like are you ok?'" Kauffman recalls. "He was frantic. 'My wife, my wife collapsed. She's not breathing,'" recalled Officer Smith of the incident. "We pulled her out of the car.""I was able to get down and do the compressions," he says.His wife - also a Philadelphia police officer - was found unresponsive in her patrol car after suffering a medical emergency.Minutes later, medics arrived and rushed Sarah to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
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