Lisa Blix

The training Lisa Blix received for her night job apparently saved the life of an elderly man who collapsed with a heart attack Tuesday at the Snohomish County Courthouse.

Blix, 38, administered a shock with an automated external defibrillator, a device available in the jury lounge on the building's first floor.Then she began chest compressions.

By day, Blix is administrative assistant to Snohomish County Clerk Pam Daniels.
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It was fortunate that the defibrillator was handy and available for use within a minute or so of the man's collapse, Blix said.

The man had been called to jury duty but looked ill, and court administration staff members were getting ready to send him home about 11:30 a.m.

Courthouse security officer Cindie Zweegman knew Blix was a firefighter and rushed to the second floor of the building to fetch her.
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Blix said the man had no pulse and wasn't breathing.She grabbed the defibrillator and administered a shock before starting chest compressions.His pulse came back and he started to breathe just before Everett firefighters arrived.

Everett Fire Capt. Rich Shrauner said the quick action by Blix may have saved the man's life.
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Blix shrugged off any praise for her part.

"I just happened to be at the right place at the right time," she said.

Lisa Blix, Lake Stevens

By day, Lisa Blix is a Snohomish County administrative assistant.Some nights and on weekends, she is a firefighter and emergency medical technician for Fire District 8 in Lake Stevens.

On June 22, she got to use her night-job skills to save a man's life while she was working at the county courthouse.The man, 80, had collapsed while serving on jury duty.Employees knew Blix is an EMT, so they alerted her.

"He was in cardiac arrest by the time I got there," she said."He had no detectable pulse."

Blix used an automatic external defibrillator to administer shocks to the man.She then administered CPR.The man regained his pulse and started breathing.

Blix said she is trained to remain calm in such a crisis."You go into a kind of mechanical mode," she said.