Off-Duty Arlington Police Officer Helps Save Friend's Life

ARLINGTON (CBS) -- He may have been off-duty at the time, but Arlington Police Officer Michael Hogan helped save the life of a teammate while playing ice hockey.

"Hopefully in a week or two he'll be back," Hogan said. "I need him feeding me the puck."

That's how casual Hogan is about being called a hero.

"I looked over and I saw one of my teammates fall on the ground," he recalled.

Hogan was playing in a hockey league at a local arena, when his 76-year-old friend went into cardiac arrest.

"(I) checked for a pulse, and he had no pulse. So at that time I started compressions," he says.

Others grabbed a defibrillator, and Hogan shocked his friend back to life.

"When he got to the emergency room, he was sitting up, and then he called his wife," he said. "And then when I got home, one of his teammates called me and said that he was asking what the score was."

Hogan is no stranger to heroics. He made news in 2013 for pulling a victim out of a car after a dangerous tanker explosion, and that was just a week after he ran into a burning home to pull an elderly woman out.

"I said I'll pick you up and get you out of here," he said.

But good luck trying to get him to brag about any of it.

"Police and firefighters, they're drawn to this job because they want to help people," he says.