"No, absolutely not. I don't consider myself a hero. It's part of the job, and that's why... that's one of the reasons why I'm here," he said.
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Maymi was off-duty when he was driving on U.S. Route 20 in Porter, Ind., Friday, May 11. In an oncoming SUV, he said he spotted a woman in the passenger seat frantically gripping the wheel.
Her husband, the driver, was apparently having a heart attack.
"The passenger was steering the vehicle, and I saw the elderly man. He was slumped over, leaning to the right.
The passenger managed to turn left, barely missing a telephone pole before guiding the SUV into an area of tall grass where mud stopped the vehicle. Maymi ventured into the brush after them.
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"It didn't look good at all," he said. "He wasn't breathing. He was slumped over. He didn't have a pulse. He wasn't conscious."
Maymi dragged the 78-year-old driver through water and mud to a patch of dry land where he performed chest compressions and eventually revived him.
"When he started moaning and breathing on his own, I was pretty happy," Maymi said.
The driver, who lives in Dyer, Ind., was taken to a hospital. ABC7 Eyewitness News was told he is home and doing all right.