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ICYMI: LI Dad Saved By CPR; Family Hopes Others Learn Procedure

Check out this story reported last week on Levittown Patch.

Check out this story reported last week on Levittown Patch.
Check out this story reported last week on Levittown Patch. (Family photo, used with permission.)

LEVITTOWN, NY — Just one out of every 10 people who suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital survive the ordeal. Even fewer survive with little or no everlasting brain damage.

That's why a family calls it a "miracle" that 71-year-old Gary Peterson of Levittown is walking and talking today. It's also why they're committed to learning CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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