A nursing assistant enjoying the “Weekend Walks” festival in Norwood on Sept. 29 with her two young children—put her medical skills to work after a volunteer suffered a seizure.

The victim, later identified as longtime Norwood resident Allen Peisel, 49, collapsed in the closed-down roadway of East 204th Street and Decatur Avenue in front of Star Furniture, sometime before 3 p.m.

Maria Colon, a nursing assistant at Saint Patrick’s Nursing Home on Van Cortlandt Park South, was with her two kids when she saw Peisel falling down and convulsing. Colon stretched Peisel out to maintain blood flow and tilted his head back to ensure Peisel was breathing properly.

The scene of children playing and having fun at the festival noticeably contrasted with police officers surrounding Peisel, who remained on the ground with FDNY members applying a neck brace on him. One young child told the Norwood News, “I feel bad for the man. He fell backwards.”

A third police vehicle and FDNY’s Engine 78 soon arrived, but no ambulance arrived to transport Peisel until 3:15 p.m. The FDNY maintains that the initial call for Peisel was made at 2:52 p.m. and they claim an ambulance arrived at 2:57 p.m., after five minutes, though no bus was present at the scene then. FDNY added that Peisel was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital at 3:19 p.m. and arrived at 3:30 p.m. The FDNY spokesperson noted, “No delays.”

Colon handed off her patient to paramedics and nearly disappeared into the crowd, but had to stop to fix a loose tire on one of her children’s bikes.

Colon recalled, “I saw him fall down and I just thought he fell, but I noticed he was having a seizure, he was convulsing.”

Colon said Peisel didn’t get to thank her, explaining, “He was still out of it when EMS took him.” She added, “He was alone and he was helping the NYPD. I know that if he had the chance to thank me, he would have.”

Peisel was released from the hospital, and was spotted back on Decatur Avenue on Oct. 2, saying, “I’d like to thank the lady. I actually don’t remember anything. I just woke up in the hospital.”

Peisel said he had hoped Colon would return to the Octoberfest Concert along East 204th Street, on Oct. 6 so he could properly thank her.