Paramedic gets called to his own heart attack

ASHURST, England - A paramedic in southeast England got an emergency message on his pager -- to respond to his own suspected heart attack.

Roger Flux, 66, of Ashurst in Hampshire, took to his bed with severe chest pains and his wife called an ambulance, which arrived in minutes, the Mirror reported Wednesday.

But moments later, Flux's pager went off, summoning him to his own address.

"I was in a lot of pain and it was no laughing matter at the time," he told the newspaper. "But now I can see the funny side.

"The message was telling me to attend to a man with chest pains," he said. "Then I looked at the address -- and saw it was mine."

After a night in the hospital, doctors discharged Flux, saying he had not had a heart attack.

"At least it shows the system works," Flux said. "The whole idea is to get the nearest responder available to attend to an emergency -- and I was certainly the nearest."