What's Happening in Hamilton, NJ…

At a special ceremony held on March 1 at the United States Postal Service facility on Route 130 in Hamilton, Terrance Lyman and Wynn Mallard, Jr. were honored by their colleagues and assorted dignitaries for their heroic actions in saving the life of Russell Childress five months ago.

On the afternoon of September 12, 2012, Lorraine Coates, an employee at the USPS facility, found Childress unresponsive after having suffered cardiac arrest. She alerted a supervisor who then activated a workplace program for first-response, which had been put into place in 2010. Lyman and Mallard were then called to the scene.

Mallard started CPR while Lyman started the automated external defibrillator (AED). They both used CPR for 10 minutes until EMS responders came to the scene and who said that Childress would have died without the work of Mallard and Lyman.

Although Mallard and Lyman appeared somewhat modest at the ceremony with regard to what they did, Mark Peters of Cardiac Science (the company that manufactured the automated external defibrillator that the men used) said that CPR and the use of the AED can be easily taught using a mannequin but that steeping to a real situation and taking action is something that is only inherent in those that become rescue workers.

Those in attendance at the ceremony were representatives of the national Postal Mail Handlers Union and the American Postal Workers Union, high-level personnel from the facility and the Postal Service and representatives from the offices of United States Representative Chris Smith of Robbinsville.
No doubt flyer printing and poster printing was used by the post office to announce this ceremony and the honor bestowed on these employees.