Kenny Ruane and Felix “Flip” Mullen spent decades saving lives as members of the FDNY.  But last year, the retired firefighters found themselves at the other end of a 911 call.  In separate incidents, Ruane and Mullen went into cardiac arrest and were revived by members of the FDNY.  At Wednesday’s 22nd annual Second Chance Ceremony at the FDNY Training Academy on Randall's Island, Mullen and Ruane will join other survivors to meet with the EMTs, paramedics and first responders who saved their lives.  FDNY welcomes three more women to its ranks  “It's great to be saved by anyone but it's amazing to be saved by the fire department I served," said Ruane, 67, who retired in 2013 from Ladder 16 in Manhattan after 43 years the job. “Only in a movie that happens.”  It was Nov. 24, 2015 when Ruane’s wife, Nancy, found him on their living room floor — unconscious and barely breathing.  A quick call to 911 brought a cavalry of help that included firefighters from Engine Company 308, paramedics from Station 50, a lieutenant from Station 46 and EMTs from Jamaica Hospital.  They gave him CPR and shocked him with an external defibrillator. Ruane was brought to the hospital and treated for a blockage in his heart.  FDNY prepares to open more than 200 firehouses to public  The health scare came as a shock to Ruane, a vegetarian for more than 40 years who had no history of heart trouble.  Mullen, 72, was at church on Good Friday 2015 near his Rockaway home when he broke out into a sweat. His wife, Rita, took him to an urgent care center where he flatlined.  “I went in for an EKG,” said Mullen, who worked at Rescue 1 in Manhattan and Ladder 120 in Brownsville. “I was told I was blue and hanging off the table.”  He credits the doctor for continuing to give him CPR as well as the EMTs, paramedics and a lieutenant from Station 47 who helped revive him. The members of Engine Company 268 also responded.  “I’m in awe of them,” said Mullen, a community leader well-known for hosting annual events for the Wounded Warriors in Rockaway. “I can’t say enough about them. I have a new awareness of how talented they are.”  Veteran EMT Stephanie McCaffrey, 31, was one of the responders who treated Mullen that day and will be present at Wednesday’s ceremony timed to coincide with National EMS Week.  “This definitely feels rewarding,” said McCaffrey. “You kind of helped bring someone back from the dead.”
To firefighters who spent their lives saving people will finally have a chance to meet the people that saved them.