A Long Island senior who just finished tearing up the dance floor was reunited Tuesday with the Suffolk heroes who brought him back after his heart gave out a month ago.
“Ladies man” Lenny Muzzillo, 73, went into cardiac arrest at the Brookhaven Senior Picnic just moments after dancing with two women at the same time — with a Suffolk County sheriff’s deputy and two correction officers saving his life with 10 minutes of CPR before an ambulance arrived.
“Not everybody gets to meet the people who saved them,” Muzzillo said as he met the literal life savers, who visited him and his family at his home alongside Sheriff Errol Toulon.
Lenny Muzzillo, 73, who just finished tearing up the dance floor, was reunited Tuesday with Deputy Dylan Hever and correction officers Sean Higgins and Travis Yacovone, who revived him after his heart gave out a month ago. Dennis A. Clark“They’re like angels on earth,” Muzzillo’s sister, Diane Summerfold said while hugging the officers who saved her brother — Deputy Dylan Hever and correction officers Sean Higgins and Travis Yacovone.
Summerfold joked that the two ladies her brother was dancing with must’ve been heart-stopping, and said Muzzillo was back up and walking within days despite an emergency quadruple bypass.
“It’s a miracle,” she said, adding the doctors have cleared out the clogged arteries and told them he’s healthy enough to get back to the dance floor.
Muzillo said he feels “terrific” coming out of his surgery, and thanked the officers who saved his life.
“Let’s do a wedding!” Muzzilo joked when asked how he was feeling as the rescuers and reporters gathered in his home.
Officer Higgins, who was on duty guarding the picnic at the time that Muzzillo went down at a table, was the first to respond and start chest compressions.
Yacovone and Hever were attending to help during the festivities and jumped into help, officials said. Higgins and Hever performing CPR to bring Muzzillo back, they added.
Muzzillo suffered a heart attack at the Brookhaven Senior Picnic, as the officers conducted 10 minutes of CPR on him before he was taken to the hospital by an ambulance, where he underwent emergency quadruple bypass surgery. Obtained by the NY Post“I’ve done CPR countless times and this was the first one I was able to actually bring back — so words can’t even describe,” Hever said about how he was feeling after meeting the man he saved.
The lothario said he woke up confused and unaware he passed out after his heart was restarted, he said.
