Lt. Jamie Hicks told the Chesterton Tribune today that at 1:24 p.m. the CFD was dispatched to the bowling alley Westchester Lanes at 124 N. Eighth St.—just around the corner from the fire house—in response to a report of a full cardiac arrest.
On firefighters’ arrival, a woman whom Hicks identified as the owner’s wife and a nurse was already administering CPR to the victim, a retirement-aged gentleman.
“We took over CPR and then applied the AED,” Hicks said. “We shocked him two times. Then we did more CPR.”
“By the time EMS got to the scene and we loaded the man into the ambulance, he was talking and breathing,” Hicks said.
Hicks also gave full credit to the nurse on the scene. “Early CPR, early defibrillation, that’s the key to saving people,” he said.
