Someone 2 Know: Peggy Willis

By Kristen Remington, KTVN Channel 2 News

We met Peggy Willis as she was cleaning a state building in Carson City. On her knees, she scrubbed the floor-to-ceiling windows until they looked so transparent you might even walk into them. "The hardest thing about these windows is doing the outside," Peggy explained as she sprayed even more cleaning solution onto them. Peggy does janitorial work at the Department of Information Technology. "I clean it up, I keep it clean and sanitary and safe and I tell everybody to get their hands on the glass." But cleaning fingerprints was the least of her worries one early morning.

Typically around 6 a.m., Peggy's boss, Dennis Sannebeck walks into the D.O.I.T office and he usually says 'hello.' But one day, shortly after their morning ritual, "I was vacuuming, came around the corner and he was sitting in his chair and he wasn't moving," Peggy recalls.

Peggy yelled for help, laid Dennis flat on the floor, and she started calling the shots. "Got somebody started on CPR, got somebody else calling 911, and I knew where the defibrillator was." At the time, she had no formal training with an Automated External Defibrillator -- or AED.  But Peggy figured she had nothing to lose.  "I opened it up, read the instructions, and the only thing I didn't do was shave his chest. I figured if ripping the duct tape off doesn't wake him up, nothing will (laugh)!"        

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