MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Quick thinking and quick action saved the life of a man at the Middleburg Heights Recreation Center.

Doctors are crediting Wayne Gebo's surviving a heart attack to an automatic external defibrillator.

AEDs are being put in more and more public places and doctors say they are saving lives.

What started out like a normal day on the job turned out to be anything but normal for Gebo.

The 51-year-old is the recreation center's supervisor and was helping to roll up some mats when he collapsed.

"I basically started sweating real bad and keeled over while rolling up the mats," Gebo said.

Gebo was having a heart attack and it was captured by a security camera. The video shows his co-workers run to his aid.

One starts to perform CPR and the other gets the automatic external defibrillator. They keep him alive until rescue crews arrive.

Gebo was taken to an area hospital, and then his family decided to have him taken by air ambulance to the Cleveland Clinic.

"When he got here he was very sick. He had kidney failure, and was on a heart bypass machine to help his lung and heart. A total of three weeks in the hospital and he's pretty much back to normal," said the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Mazen Hanna.

The Middleburg Heights rec center has three defibrillators. Employees have had to use them twice, and both times they've saved lives.

"We were told by our fire department that it was a textbook save," said rec center director Carl Guarnieri.

Gebo said he's eternally grateful.

"I've got an 8-month-old granddaughter and I would like to see her grow up and get married some day," said Gebo.

Gebo had the heart attack in June. He returned to work on Tuesday and said he's feeling great.

To learn more about automatic external defibrillators or CPR, go to www.redcross.org.