EMT Students Snap Into Action When They Realize Instructor Isn’t Acting During Training Exercise: ‘OK, This Is Real’

It goes without saying that there’s never a good time or place to have a heart attack.

But if you were to have a heart attack, it’s hard to think of many places better to have one than when you’re surrounded by first responders — even if they’re students.

And, praise God, that’s the exact situation one Wisconsin EMT instructor found himself in.

According to WLUK-TV, EMT instructor Karl Arps was helping a group of trainees at Fox Valley Technical College in Greenville on March 25.

The students in the EMT-Basic course were actually practicing CPR scenarios with Arps in the back of an ambulance.

“At the time, I was putting the cuff around him to get a blood pressure, and I saw his hand kind of turn in the middle of that, right as I did it, and then I heard snoring — like his breathing was snoring, respirations. And his