MENOMONIE, WI (WTAQ) - A driver from Canada might be alive today because of a favor he did for a stranded motorist on the Interstate in western Wisconsin. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune said 61-year-old Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg stopped to change a tire for the stranded motorist on Saturday night, about nine miles east of Menomonie on I-94. He drove back on the road. But he suffered a heart attack a few moments later, and his wife Ann frantically got on the phone and waved her arms. Right then, the motorist Giesbrecht helped had stopped. One of its occupants, Lisa Meyer of Eau Claire, gave CPR to Giesbrecht. And rescuers soon arrived with a defibrillator which helped get the man’s heart going again. Giesbrecht was in serious condition Monday at an Eau Claire hospital. State Patrol Sergeant Michael Newton said that if the Giesbrechts had not helped change the tire, the people they rescued might have been stranded for too long to help the older couple.
