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Pizza delivery teen saves customer’s life

Anson Lemmer`s coworkers at a pizza restaurant in Colorado thought he got lost during a delivery. When they found out what really happened, they couldn`t believe it.

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What was suppose to be a regular pizza delivery turned into a life-saving event.

Last week, Anson Lemmer was delivering his last pizza order of the night when he arrived at the address and saw a man laying on the ground not breathing. Instincts kicked in and Lemmer immediately sprang into action, performing CPR to save the man’s life.

The 19-year-old had been working a summer job at Uncle Pizza in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It was only his second day when his CPR skills came in handy.

Post Independent reports that when Lemmer arrived with the hot pizza, his customer was already “turning blue outside of the house.” Two people were at the scene trying to help the man – one calling it in for help and the other attempting CPR.

“When I pulled up there, I knew something was wrong, and I had to act. They asked me right away if I knew CPR,” Lemmer told the news outlet. “I jumped in right away to do those chest compressions.”

Luckily, Lemmer trained in CPR a year ago and knew exactly what he was doing. After a few minutes, the man started to breathe again on his own. And it wasn’t long before Glenwood Springs Fire Department also showed up and eventually took the man to the hospital. But it was Lemmer and his fast actions that are credited for saving the man’s life.

“I called my parents and said this has been the craziest pizza delivery ever. I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man,” Lemmer told Post Independent.

The teen ended up getting a big tip and keeping the pizza pie. And in the fall, Lemmer plans on returning to the University of Colorado in Denver to continue his studies in anthropology and literature.