HSR hero

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A Hamilton street railway driver is being hailed as a hero tonight after woman collapsed in the city’s east end on the weekend, but the driver feels she was just doing her job.

On Saturday, Ed Piner and his wife Wendy were out for a walk running errands, when Wendy said something was wrong and dropped to the ground. The couple was walking past an apartment building on Melvin just east of Parkdale when Wendy collapsed. Piner says it all happened quite suddenly.

“I don’t know anything about CPR and when I saw her turn blue I thought she was gone. Scared the heck out of me I’ll tell you that.”

Two HSR buses were passing by at the time. One driver called 911, the other, Christina Edwards, stopped and started doing CPR before paramedics arrived. In the chaos of the emergency, Piner didn’t get the chance to meet the woman who helped save his wife, until now.

Edwards, who was a volunteer firefighter in Burlington for nearly a decade, humbly says it was a team effort. And right after she got back on the bus.

“I did. It was never my intention to have any of this go any further than…I wasn’t even going to make an incident report.”