Mike Davies

Mike Davies

On Sunday 20 March 1994 Mike Davies died – not just once, but five times.

Mike was running the Fleet half marathon, and was close to the finish line when he collapsed, had a heart attack and died. His story would have been very different if it wasn’t for the three amazing St John Ambulance volunteers who were on duty that day.

Andrew Harness, David Findlay and Howard Rayner brought Mike back to life, and they kept on bringing him back to life. Every time his heart stopped beating the volunteers persevered, using a defibrillator to get it started again.

By the time I found him my husband had died… All I could think was, ‘No! Not Mike! Not now'.

Eileen
Mikes wife

Mike and his wife Eileen ‘owe the past 15 years to those incredible St John Ambulance volunteers’. And they are just two of the 80,000 we help each year.

There are over 40,000 St John Ambulance volunteers and they give over five million hours of their time to help the public with no thought of reward. But we rely on donations from the general public to help recruit, train and equip these amazing people.

Please, give what you can today and help us save another life. Thank you.