from The Annandale Advocate, by Chuck Sterling

Tim Hinz of South Haven probably couldn’t have picked a better place for his heart to stop pumping.

The 37-year-old family man went into sudden cardiac arrest in the Buffalo Clinic parking lot, which is attached to Buffalo Hospital, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, while helping a friend start a stalled car.

Within minutes numerous emergency workers were at his side giving lifesaving shocks with an automated external defibrillator and administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Hinz lived to tell about it Wednesday, Feb. 18, at a ceremony in the hospital to recognize 10 people who helped save his life.

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