Caught on Video: Pittsburgh NBC Station's News Crew Helps Save Man From Heroin Overdose

The WPXI team was setting up for a live shot when they noticed a man slumped in his car.

A news crew from an NBC station in Pittsburgh helped save a man who accidentally overdosed on heroin behind the wheel Wednesday night.

The crew was setting up for a live shot in Washington, Pennsylvania, when WPXI photographer Dave Clark noticed the man slumped in his car and began to give him CPR.

"I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we can just keep a pulse going till the paramedics get here, we'll be cool,'" he said. "But his pulse got weaker and weaker."

While Clark pulled the man from his car and administered CPR, reporter Cara Sapida dialed 911.

Medics arrived shortly after and were able to revive the man, who they said had overdosed on heroin. They said without Clark's quick action, the man likely would have died.

"Your cameraman originally brought his pulse back,” police officer Matt Karlowsky told WPXI. “He probably would've died if your crew wasn't there.”

Heroin and opioid overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in Pennsylvania, with more than 800 heroin-related deaths in 2014 alone, WPXI reported.

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