{"id":2600167,"date":"2026-05-07T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emt-students-snap-into-action-when-they-realize-instructor-isnt-acting-during-training-exercise-ok-this-is-real\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:10:34","slug":"emt-students-snap-into-action-when-they-realize-instructor-isnt-acting-during-training-exercise-ok-this-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emt-students-snap-into-action-when-they-realize-instructor-isnt-acting-during-training-exercise-ok-this-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"EMT Students Snap Into Action When They Realize Instructor Isn&#8217;t Acting During Training Exercise: &#8216;OK, This Is Real&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femt-students-snap-into-action-when-they-realize-instructor-isnt-acting-during-training-exercise-ok-this-is-real%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2600167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Wisconsin EMT instructor, Karl Arps, suffered a real heart attack while his students were practicing CPR scenarios at Fox Valley Technical College in Greenville. During the training-on the back of an ambulance-students noticed signs that didn\u2019t seem like an act, including breathing that indicated medical crisis and facial discoloration. They quickly placed him on a backboard, cleared him from restraints, started CPR, and used a defibrillator to restart his heart. Arps regained consciousness and was breathing shortly afterward. He survived the outside<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-causes-of-death-in-the-u-s-during-covid-19-pandemic\/\" title=\"Top Causes of Death in the U.S. During COVID-19 Pandemic\">-hospital cardiac arrest<\/a>, later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-surprised-senate-republicans-with-retirement-announcement-timing\/\" title=\"McConnell&#039;s retirement announcement timing caught Senate Republicans off guard\">underwent <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >triple bypass surgery<\/a><\/a>, and was discharged from the hospital just seven days later.After returning to campus, Arps praised the students who saved his life.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that there\u2019s never a good time or place to have a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>But if you <em>were <\/em>to have a heart attack, it\u2019s hard to think of many places better to have one than when you\u2019re surrounded by first responders \u2014 even if they\u2019re students.<\/p>\n<p>And, praise God, that\u2019s the exact situation one Wisconsin EMT instructor found himself in.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/fox11online.com\/news\/local\/fvtc-students-put-skills-learned-in-class-to-work-by-saving-instructor-cpr-fox-valley-technical-college-cardiac-arrest-defibrillator-emt-ems-ambulance-gold-cross-triple-bypass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WLUK-TV<\/a>, EMT instructor Karl Arps was helping a group of trainees at Fox Valley Technical College in Greenville on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>The students in the EMT-Basic course were actually practicing CPR scenarios with Arps in the back of an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 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 \u2014 like his breathing was snoring, respirations. And his head was turning to the opposite end, and I\u2019m sort of thinking to myself, \u2018Dang, what symptom is he throwing at me now?&#8217;\u201d student Logan Lehrer told WLUK.<\/p>\n<p>Lehrer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc26.com\/appleton\/fox-valley-tech-ems-students-help-save-instructors-life-after-cardiac-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WGBA-TV<\/a> that Arps\u2019 reputation for being a \u201creally good\u201d actor led him to hesitate about what was actually happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Karl has done scenarios where he plays the part really good, like he deserves an Oscar,\u201d he said, before describing the exact moment he knew something was actually wrong: \u201cYou could see discoloration on his face, and we were like, OK, this is real now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUgblzpq6NE?si=OqjTt84QK0f961uF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Traci Blondeau, another instructor in the course, told WLUK that she knew right away something serious was going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I was getting in the back of the ambulance, at that point, I still wasn\u2019t sure if it was an act or not,\u201d Blondeau told the local Fox affiliate. \u201cAnd then he did that agonal breath. You just know it when you see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, Arps was, in fact, having a real heart attack. And the EMT students didn\u2019t hesitate to leap into action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got the backboard underneath him, and then we unbuckled him too, because we had him buckled,\u201d Sofie DeValk, another student, said. \u201cGot the backboard under him and then pulled him out and then got him on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students started CPR on Arps and then used a defibrillator to re-start his heart. Within minutes, Arps was conscious and breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Red Cross data, WGBA noted that there is only roughly a 10 percent chance of surviving a heart attack outside of a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the harrowing ordeal, followed by triple bypass surgery, Arps was out of the hospital in just seven days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a heart attack \u2014 a widow maker. I was dead, I made it out of that hospital in a week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Arps recently returned to the campus and had nothing but praise, thanks, and love for the students who saved his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever you guys want to do, I know you can do it, after you just proved it, saving me,\u201d Arps told them. \u201cSo, thank you again, all of the students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWhat can I say to six students who saved my life? 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