Thomas Hargis and Lyndsey Kieta saw a fellow human being in great distress and knew they had to help. They struggle to explain how they remained so calm in doing so.

Hargis, 20, a lifeguard at the Fall River YMCA, and Kieta, 38, a Y member, both performed CPR on member Paul Chasse on the afternoon of July 11 after the 53-year-old man suffered a severe cardiac episode, eventually going into cardiac arrest, in the second-floor fitness room at the Y.

Chasse, a Fall River resident, was hospitalized and had a defibrillator implanted. He was released from Charlton Memorial Hospital this past Sunday and is “doing well,” according to his daughter, Cassandra McElroy.

McElroy said Hargis and Kieta “are amazing. Myself and family are truly grateful that they were not only there but they stepped in and saved a man's life that they didn't know. They are heroes.”

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