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For Andy Blair, a 56-year-old Michigan man, having his life saved by an AED turned out to be quite the family affair. Back in February, Blair was helping prepare for an event at his local community center. Everything was going smoothly, and he decided to go grab himself a slice of pizza. The next thing he knew, he was in an ambulance.

Big shout out today to Kelly Walton, a school nurse in South Carolina who used an AED to save the life of a fellow employee. Sammy Moorman, a cafeteria worker at Foster Park Elementary School, was outside breaking down cardboard boxes and singing a song on the morning of March 24. After a while, his co-workers realized that the singing had stopped. When they went outside to check on him, they found Moorman lying unconscious, collapsed on top of the boxes he had been working on.

Here's a crazy story you may have missed: On February 19, a company in Hedron, Ohio installed an AED in their office. They would later say that it was something they did as a “just in case” measure, just sticking with the “Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it” mentality. Turns out, they needed it pretty badly.

The NHL faced a scary moment last week when Dallas Stars forward Rich Peverley collapsed on the bench in the middle of a game. But had it not been for an AED and well-trained early responders, that scary moment may very well have ended in tragedy.

A Valencia High School student’s life was saved by an AED after going into cardiac arrest during basketball practice.