Officer saves woman EDISON - An Edison police officer saved the life of a 98-year-old woman through quick application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques on April 1. Patrolman Ted Hamer was on traffic detail on Stephenville Parkway around 8:30 in the morning when his radio picked up a call about an unresponsive woman nearby on the same street. He responded immediately. Upon arriving at the house, he was greeted by a visiting nurse, who let him in. Once inside, he saw a woman sitting in a wheelchair near the dining room table. He checked her pulse and breathing and found that she had neither. She apparently had suffered a heart attack, according to police. Hamer picked the woman up and placed her on the floor and began, as per his training, to perform CPR. The officer went through three rounds of compressions and breaths before the woman began to cough and move her legs about. After this, first aid and EMS squads arrived and took her to JFK Hospital on James Street, where she was placed in the critical care unit.