Mayor Scott Gillingham was wrapping up work at city hall Thursday, when a staff member looked out his office window and spotted a man overdosing.

The mayor rushed to grab a naloxone kit, which reverses opioid overdoses, then headed outside, alerting a security guard along the way.

Gillingham said the guard “took the lead immediately,” giving the man chest compressions and multiple nasal spray doses of the lifesaving antidote.

“When we got there, he was laying on his back on the ground, not breathing. And you could just tell … there was no doubt he needed intervention. And the people that he had been with … said he had overdosed,” said Gillingham Friday.

The mayor said he also gave the man a nasal spray dose and needle injection of naloxone.

“There was no doubt he needed intervention.”

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