Louisville gas station worker recounts giving CPR to man who fell 20 feet into creek

After seeing our coverage of a rescue behind a Louisville gas station, the mystery man who jumped in to help reached out to WLKY, wanting to share his side of the story.

It turns out he’s a gas station employee who had only been on the job a few weeks, but on Tuesday night, instinct kicked in.

“I didn’t really know I saved him until I actually watched the news,” said Aaron Biddix.

Biddix was wrapping up his shift at the Speedway on Westport Road when his manager called for help.

“I get down and I'm like, what am I looking for? There's nobody out and about. There's no fights going on. There's nothing like so what's... what's the deal? She was, like, down by the creek,” he said.

When he looked over, he saw that a man had fallen nearly 20 feet below into a shallow creek. Without hesitation, Aaron made his way over the edge.

“The only way down was to drop. So I just turned around, grabbed the ledge, let my feet down and dropped,” Biddix said.

Down in the dark, he found the man unconscious.

“There’s a little slab where the tunnels intersect. I thought, if he stops breathing, I can do CPR. Then he stopped breathing and I just started," Biddix said.

Biddix said it didn’t feel heroic.

“I really just felt like I was in the way, you know? Just some dude jumping in a creek doing CPR,” he said

But firefighters say his actions helped keep the man alive long enough for EMS to step in.

“I’m glad that it helped out, but I honestly had no idea until I saw that I was helping out," Biddix said.