Toby Alt was visiting his newborn granddaughter for the second time when he collapsed. If the 53-year-old hadn’t already been in the hospital, emergency workers say he wouldn’t have survived.

Alt’s daughter, Aintzane Simpkins, gave birth to her daughter, and Alt’s granddaughter, Gia, two weeks early, which is what brought him to the hospital that day.

Alt stood up to walk around and started to get severe heartburn. He was trying to get back to the couch when he collapsed. Simpkins said he rolled over and “looked gone.”

Family members frantically ran to the hallway, yelling for help, and Cache Valley Hospital emergency medical team members fled the room in seconds.

Derek McLeod, one of the emergency room registered nurses who tended to Alt, said they quickly noticed he had no pulse, beg

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