AMSTERDAM, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) — A remarkable recovery and a happy reunion for a woman who suffered a cardiac event while behind the wheel of a bus . On the day she was training to be a bus driver, Yvonne Chambers went into cardiac arrest. This week, she was reunited with the people who jumped into action for a heartfelt reunion.
The lobby at the Sentinel, an assisted living facility in Amsterdam, was filled with love and hugs as Chambers exclaimed, “It’s so wonderful to see you!”
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In the unlikeliest of connections, three strangers are now connected for life after a life-threatening situation.
Chambers explained, “I didn’t know what happened to me.”
But Prince Asante, the lone Siena College student on a shuttle bus in May 2023, remembers it clearly. “All of a sudden, I felt the bus swerve side by side,” he recalled.
Chambers had suffered a cardiac arrest. Asante remembered, “She was passed out. I didn’t feel any pulse, and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, she’s not breathing.’ Then all of a sudden, I realized we have to do something. This woman is not gonna die in my hands.”