3 off-duty cops trained in CPR save man

Three off-duty police officers revived an unconscious man in Brentwood Thursday just a few hours after they had finished a day of advanced life support training, police said.

The officers, part of the Medical Crisis Action Team that reports to the department's chief surgeon, were leaving the Applebees restaurant at 300 Motor Pkwy. at 7:30 p.m., when they found a 23-year-old man slumped over the wheel of his car, police said, possibly as a result of a drug overdose.

Officers James Garside, Angela Ferrara and Joseph D'Alessandro, called 911 and got the man, who was barely breathing, out of the vehicle, police said.

They got a defibrillator-cardiac monitor from one of their cars, and applying their training, were able to revive him in about 5 minutes, police said.

He was able to walk on his own by the time an ambulance arrived to take him to St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, police said.

The three Suffolk officers had just finished a full day of Advanced Life Support Training at the Police Academy in Brentwood at 4 p.m., police said.

In May, 2009, Garside helped revive a Huntington woman who collapsed at her home and had no pulse, and the previous January, he helped revive a 48-year-old man who had collapsed at a Huntington Station business.