There are still Good Samaritans in NYC and two who saved a mans life in Central Park reunited with him for Christmas

It’s a Christmas miracle.When 77-year-old Upper West Sider Carney Mimms collapsed during a morning run near Central Park’s Strawberry Fields last month, two good Samaritans swooped in to assist with CPR, performing chest compressions that helped saved his life before Lenox Hill EMTs arrived.Now, Mimms has tracked down and been reunited with the guardian angels — both doctors, both named Flavia — who helped him.“The whole thing is miraculous in so many ways,” Mimms, a retired IT professional and Army vet told The Post of celebrating with Dr.Flavia Golden, 59, and Dr.

Flavia Fioretti, 42, at Golden’s Upper West Side home last week.It was around 8:30 a.m.on Nov.

19 when Mimms, who typically runs up to 2.5 miles five days a week, went unconscious and fell to the ground in the park. “I hadn’t had any unusual symptoms or distress,” Mimms said.“Then I collapsed and stopped breathing.”Golden, an internist with a private practice on the Upper East Side, was on the phone when she spotted Mimms face down on the ground.“I ran over there and assessed him,” Golden told The Post of finding Mimms, whose face was bleeding from the fall.

She notes that she was up earlier than usual because of jet lag after a trip to Alaska.“He stopped breathing and I flipped him over and felt for a pulse.I started with chest compressions,” Golden recalled.At the same time, Fioretti, a pediatrician who also lives on the Upper West Side, was taking her son to school when she saw the scene.“He had no pulse — he had technically passed,” Fioretti told The Post.While another helpful passerby, 29-year-old Alexa Lopez called 911, Fioretti and Golden took turns doing chest compressions on Mimms for close to 10 minutes.

“It’s very hard to sustain CPR for that long.We alternated until the ambulance arrived.” A team of Northwell Lenox Hill EMTs and paramedics arrived to find Mimms in cardiac arrest, pulseless and not breathing. He did not have any ID at the t...

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