TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) -- A nurse attending the Alabama-Missouri game performed CPR on an EMT who was in medical distress. It was all caught on video.
In this CBS 42 News exclusive, reporter Avery Boyce talked with the nurse about what was happening in that moment.
What the video doesn't show you is that moments before Erin Mender performed CPR on the EMT, she just finished helping a fan who was also having a medical emergency.
"We got up to our seats, and I was setting my things down, and this woman behind me just happened to be like 'Oh my gosh, there's a medical emergency over there,' and I said, 'Do they need a nurse?'" Mender said.
Mender checked on a fan who suffered a head injury. She helped an EMT check vitals and ger the fan to an ambulance. On her way back to the upper deck, there was another cry for help.
"As I was walking back up to my seats, somebody grabbed me, and I'm not sure who it was," Mender said. "They said there's another medical emergency, and I was like 'Where?"
It was the same EMT from earlier.
"His eyes started to roll back into his head, and he was falling backwards onto someone else," Mender said. "And I shook him, and I said, 'Sir. Sir.' He was unresponsive. I felt for a pulse. I did not feel one. I yelled out for someone else to feel one. They confirmed, and I looked around, and I said, 'OK, I'm starting CPR.'"
"We encourage people to not be scared and do CPR if they're faced with that situation," said Dr. Elwin Crawford, who serves as the University of Alabama's EMS medical director.
As a nurse, Mender has performed life-saving measures in the past but in the controlled environment of a hospital and not an SEC football stadium.
"I remember in that moment everything was so quite around me, but I know it was so chaotic," Mender said. "I remember thinking if I don't get this person back, where are the EMTs? Where are the AEDs? I don't know how much longer I can do CRP for."
Moments later, the EMT was responsive.
"I just keep thinking hopefully this will get me in touch with this man, and I can see how he's doing because that's what I care about, and that's what I want to happen," Mender said.
CBS 42 News got in touch with the EMT. He is healthy and doing fine. He said he is thankful Mender stepped him to help him.