<div>A group of eight handcuffed inmates in the US state of Texas busted out of their cell and saved the life of a prison guard having a heart attack, a media report said today.<br /><br />The eight inmates were locked up in a holding cell at the District Courts Building in Fort Worth city when the incident happened.<br /><br />The only guard posted next to the cell had been cracking jokes with the inmates when he suddenly collapsed in his chair due to a cardiac arrest, New York Daily News reported. The prisoners then began shouting for help but no one was there nearby.<br /><br />In the meantime, one of the prisoners managed to break the cell door open and the group approached the fallen guard who had no pulse at that time.<br /><br />The inmates kept screaming for help and started banging on doors in a desperate bid to get someone down to the cell. Deputies upstairs in court heard the ruckus and rushed down, thinking they had a fight on their hands.<br /><br />"It never crossed my mind not to help whether he's got a gun or a badge. If he falls down, I'm gonna help him," inmate Nick Kelton told 11 WFAA TV station.<br /><br />When officers finally arrived, they locked up the inmates back into the cell and called emergency services and started performing Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the breathless guard in a bid to save him.<br /><br />Medics used a defibrillator to shock the guard, and his heart started beating again as the inmates looked on. Captain Mark Arnett said the prisoners' breakout likely saved the guard's life.<br /><br />"He could have been there 15 minutes before any other staff walked in and found him," Arnett said. The cell's locks have been strengthened after the inmates' escape for a good deed, the report added.<div> </div><div>/</div></div>.<div><div>/ <br /></div></div>
<div>A group of eight handcuffed inmates in the US state of Texas busted out of their cell and saved the life of a prison guard having a heart attack, a media report said today.<br /><br />The eight inmates were locked up in a holding cell at the District Courts Building in Fort Worth city when the incident happened.<br /><br />The only guard posted next to the cell had been cracking jokes with the inmates when he suddenly collapsed in his chair due to a cardiac arrest, New York Daily News reported. The prisoners then began shouting for help but no one was there nearby.<br /><br />In the meantime, one of the prisoners managed to break the cell door open and the group approached the fallen guard who had no pulse at that time.<br /><br />The inmates kept screaming for help and started banging on doors in a desperate bid to get someone down to the cell. Deputies upstairs in court heard the ruckus and rushed down, thinking they had a fight on their hands.<br /><br />"It never crossed my mind not to help whether he's got a gun or a badge. If he falls down, I'm gonna help him," inmate Nick Kelton told 11 WFAA TV station.<br /><br />When officers finally arrived, they locked up the inmates back into the cell and called emergency services and started performing Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the breathless guard in a bid to save him.<br /><br />Medics used a defibrillator to shock the guard, and his heart started beating again as the inmates looked on. Captain Mark Arnett said the prisoners' breakout likely saved the guard's life.<br /><br />"He could have been there 15 minutes before any other staff walked in and found him," Arnett said. The cell's locks have been strengthened after the inmates' escape for a good deed, the report added.<div> </div><div>/</div></div>.<div><div>/ <br /></div></div>