{"id":10631,"date":"2015-03-18T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=10631"},"modified":"2015-03-18T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T20:44:04","slug":"three-paulding-putnam-electric-employees-receive-hometown-hero-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/three-paulding-putnam-electric-employees-receive-hometown-hero-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Paulding Putnam Electric Employees Receive Hometown Hero Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured here with their awards are (l-r) Josh Smith, Zak Kauser, and Steve Kahle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The quick action of three Paulding Putnam Electric (PPEC) employees saved the life of a contracted employee nearly three weeks ago and on Friday, March 13th those three employees were recognized for their heroism.<\/p>\n

Linemen Zak Kauser and Josh Smith noticed a contractor wasn\u2019t feeling good as he was sitting down in the warehouse at PPEC. The contractor was disoriented and told the two to leave him alone. But Zak and Josh didn\u2019t leave him alone and thank goodness they didn\u2019t because it ultimately saved the man\u2019s life. Zak and Josh called for help and that\u2019s when Staking Technician Steve Kahle stepped in and helped the man get into a vehicle to be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n

The contractor was eventually taken by life flight to a Fort Wayne hospital where several surgeries were performed. The man suffered an aneurism in his heart and miraculously is expected to recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The quick action of three Paulding Putnam Electric (PPEC) employees saved the life of a contracted employee nearly three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2230,6,499],"tags":[121,3443,59,1995,120,3444,3442],"class_list":["post-10631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-community","category-community","category-health","tag-electric","tag-josh-smith","tag-paulding","tag-ppec","tag-putnam","tag-steve-kahle","tag-zak-kauser"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t