John Haydel had no pulse and wasn’t breathing when he collapsed at the ExxonMobil plant in Port Allen on Aug. 17. By the time the ambulance got him to the hospital, he was awake and talking.
On Thursday, he stood before the West Baton Rouge Parish Council and thanked the people who brought him back.
“I’d just like to thank everybody who was involved in getting me back home to my wife and my family,” Haydel said.
What happened
Haydel, who works for MMR Group, was walking back from lunch around 12:40 p.m. to look at a job on the northwest corner of the plant when he collapsed, according to a summary from ExxonMobil Public and Government Affairs…