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Seattle – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Sea-Tac International Airport helped save the life of a 65-year-old U.S. citizen from California who arrived on a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen Wednesday afternoon.

Arriving international passengers notified CBP officers in the inspections area that a man had fallen to the floor and appeared to require medical assistance. The officers immediately notified 911 and began emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation. With the aid of a defibrillator, CBP officers continued CPR until Port of Seattle Fire Department paramedics arrived and the EMTs assumed life saving procedures. A King County Medic One unit arrived to coordinate the patient’s care and transport him to the hospital.

“It is clear that without the quick and competent efforts of the CBP officers, the passenger would not have survived,” said U.S. Customs and Border Protection Area Port Director Roland Suliveras. “The professional teamwork between CBP, the Port of Seattle and the Medic One personnel resulted in a successful rescue operation.”

The heart attack victim remains hospitalized in Burien in critical but stable condition.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.