STILLWATER, Minn — As a Stillwater firefighter, Katie Hawke understood the gravity of the call that flashed across the app first responders like her monitor.

“They had actually said in the notes, ‘AED-delivered shock,'” Katie said.

Then came a phone call to inform Katie it was her son, Keegan Hawke, who had collapsed on the Stillwater High School football practice field, suffering sudden cardiac arrest.

“I mean it’s.. it’s a nightmare,” Katie said. “Both as a parent and as a firefighter because it’s already a bad call. And now it’s your kid.”

“I don’t really remember that whole day,” Keegan said.

Keegan said he’s felt his heart rate speed up at times before going back to normal. Doctors had checked him out in the past and told him his heart was normal. 

On Sept 24, Keegan experienced that feeling again and wanted to alert his junior varsity coach.

“We were running a drill, a non-contact drill, and I was told I started yelling to my coach and running over to him,” Keegan said.

Keegan collapsed at his coach’s feet. Teammates immediately alerted Stillwater head athletic trainer Michael Renfro and assistant Olivia DuBois.

DuBois started CPR as Renfro prepared the automated external defibrillator, or AED, a portable device meant to save lives during sudden cardiac arrest.

In his 15 years as a trainer, Renfro had never used an AED on a person. But he said it went just like during training.

The AED combined with CPR brought back Keegan’s pulse. 

“Thank God for everybody that was there,” Katie said. “We didn’t know if he had brain damage. We didn’t know if he was going to make it.”

It was the day before Keegan’s 16th birthday, a milestone that passed while he was in a medically-induced coma in the hospital, where he woke up after 72 hours.

“You had a lot of questions,” Katie said to Keegan during an interview with KARE 11 News before joking, “But they were pretty hard to understand.”

Laughing, Keegan responded, “Yeah, I was under a lot of drugs, so…”

It’s so much easier to laugh now. Keegan has no brain damage. A device implanted in his chest will regulate his heart. He can still play basketball, but his football days are over. And that is one of the toughest parts for this sophomore.

“I just like playing sports and being physical. So being told I can’t play a sport I love is very hard,” he said.

But to be able to walk out of the hospital, to go home with family just 10 days later, is a privilege neither Keegan nor any of his family takes lightly.

After this experience, Katie and Keegan are determined to spread awareness of sudden cardiac arrest and the benefits of accessible AEDs. They’ve started a Gofundme page to help in those efforts.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus woman has gone viral on TikTok after sharing a story about finding a rug buried in her yard. The discovery prompted the Columbus Division of Police to get involved.

Katie Santry has lived at the east Columbus house for about a year. She said she stumbled upon the strange discovery while digging holes for fence posts.

“We were building a fence, and we, through digging a post wall, came across a carpet. It was weird but I kind of let it go,” Santry told 10TV on Thursday evening.

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Some time later, she said her computer was shattered and her desk strewn about in the middle of the night, but no one in the home reportedly did it.

“I jokingly said, ‘did the body in the rug do it?’ and I put that on TikTok, and now everyone at this point has seen it,” she said.

Santry said she was going to leave the carpet-like fabric alone but was influenced by TikTok viewers to call police to dig it up.

“When they first came out, they thought nothing of it, and I think because of the virality of the TikTok, they called me today [Thursday] when my friends and I were actually going to dig this rug up today out of curiosity,” she said.

Columbus police told her they wanted to bring K-9s to investigate.

Santry streamed some of the investigation on TikTok Thursday afternoon. More than 100,000 users tuned in to watch at times, as she showed video of the K-9s sniffing through her yard.

At one point, Santry watches as the dog sniffs a spot and then sits down. She can be heard gasping in the video.

“The world saw the dogs sit on the hole and it kind of ended there,” Santry said.

When asked about the previous owners of the home, Santry told reporters that they were in their 90s and had moved into a nursing home. She believes they were the only owners before her family moved in.

While viewers have tuned in to watch what happens next in the investigation, Santry has watched her following grow.

“The day I posted it I had 6,000 followers,” she said, “It happened like snap of a finger. I didn’t anticipate virality in the slightest.”

A nearby neighbor who has lived in his home for 20 years told 10TV that the attention has been disturbing and alarming.

“This is the loudest it has been in a long, long time,” he said. “I hope they find what they’re looking for and we can get back to life as normal and quiet and peaceful.”

Columbus police began excavating outside the home Friday morning. Officers provided an update in the afternoon saying that no remains had been found. 

DALLAS — Amy Schultz was supposed to be in the mountains of Western North Carolina for what she called one of her speedbump birthdays – a year that ends in a five.

She lives in North Texas but used to be a Florida resident, so she doesn’t take hurricanes lightly.

She and her husband were scheduled on an American Airlines flight from DFW Thursday.

But when the airline waived its change fees because a hurricane was bearing down across the southeast, they took it as a sign to cancel their trip.

“I am so grateful that we didn’t go,” Amy said. “On the other hand, I’m so devastated by seeing people and their lives and their property. And the culture of that Asheville community is just been toppled and it’s catastrophic.”

Amy Schultz is an artist, and the Blue Ridge Mountains is a haven for the arts.

That’s one reason the couple started visiting years ago. Amy called the region “a national treasure.”

“It’s just so special. It’s out of a fairy tale. The natural beauty is extraordinary,” she said.

Regular visits turned into buying a home in the city of Black Mountain.

They closed on the home on Second Street two months ago. Then came deadly floods.

Buncombe County, where Black Mountain is, reports 57 lives lost and the search for survivors continues.

The Schultzes had become fast friends with their new neighbors, but without power or cell phone service across the region, they couldn’t reach any of them.

They left messages and held onto hope for days on end.

Finally, on Amy’s birthday, a neighbor who had driven to Raleigh finally got cell service restored and let them know their house was standing and only had minimal damage.

“Damage on our end of the street was due more to falling trees than flooding,” Amy said. “We are so relieved and grateful. And still so sad.”

“Our plan is to go back as soon as we can. As soon as it’s safe. As soon as we’re not taking gas away from people who want it, and as soon as we’re not taking water away from people who need it, That’s when we’re going to go back,” Amy said.