Raynham police rescued two people who were found unresponsive and without a pulse in separate incidents in early January, the department said.

The first case happened on Jan. 4, when a man was found unresponsive at a home on Carver Street. He was not breathing and did not have a pulse, the Raynham Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

As a family member began CPR, an officer set up an automated external defibrillator, police said.

Since the man was in a narrow area in the home where there was little room to move, the officer told the family member to place electrode pads on the man's chest.

The family member shocked the man with the defibrillator, the department said. The officer then started giving the man chest compressions until Raynham paramedics arrived.

The two rounds of CPR and two shocks from the officer helped save the man's life, Raynham Police Chief David LaPlante said in a statement.

The man was conscious when he was taken to a local hospital, the department said. A few days later, police were told the man was expected to recover.

The second case happened on Jan. 5 when a person was having breathing problems at a home, police said.

When an officer went to the home, the person also was found unresponsive and without a pulse. The officer then called paramedics and began setting up a defibrillator.

The defibrillator didn't indicate that a shock was needed. So the officer started giving the person chest compressions as paramedics "began administering an oral airway," police said.

The officer then helped the paramedics with CPR and helped them move the person down a staircase and into an ambulance, police said.

The person, who now had a pulse, was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive, the department said.