The Daily Item
A LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, FIREFIGHTER COLLAPSED at a 2-alarm house fire Tuesday morning and went into cardiac arrest. He had just come out of the house when he dropped and his colleagues were able to begin CPR on him immediately. Paramedics on the scene were able to get him revived before transporting him to the hospital.
WFXT-TV’s helicopter captured this graphic video of the firefighters working on their partner (no audio):
One witness said that the firefighter, Mark Ducharme walked to the ladder truck where he collapsed onto the ground grabbing his chest and coughing very hard. A firefighter told the Boston Herald his colleague was “brought back” with two shocks to the heart from a defibrillator.
The fire began around 10:30 am Tuesday morning in a 2-story, wood frame house that was 110 yrs. old.
WCVB-TV Ch. 5 Boston has this good video report from the fire scene:
Firefighter Ducharme, at last report, is in serious but stable condition. The house was a total loss.
The Daily Item has the details and full STORY HERE.
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