It was a life-saving mission in the middle of a snowstorm Sunday. Several first responders came together to keep a man’s heart beating. Robbie Nutter is the Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department chief and also a dispatcher at the Metro 911 in Kanawha County. He told WCHS TV that there was a patient on his way to Cleveland, but the weather switched those plans, and he had to go to Pleasent Valley Hospital. The male patient needed a cardiac machine that acts as an external heart pump and tThe hospital didn’t have any spare batteries for that machine. An EMT at Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department stopped by the man’s house to get he batteries made it to Pleasant Valley Hospital with 11 minutes to spare. Deputies and 911 dispatches from Mason and Kanawha Counties, along with staff from the Pleasent Valley Hospital, also helped in the life-saving effort.