Portland (OR) firefighters’ valiant actions resulted in a man’s life being spared after a residential fire last March. In that they were helped by acyanidetreatment the department had acquired in recent years.
The victim, 44-year-old Daniel Cooper, was recently reunited with the firefighters who saved him, andThe Oregonian(http://bit.ly/YZox5n) retold the story of his rescue. It also discussed the use of thecyanidekit that helped keep him alive.
心肌梗死后中尉莉婉nto and other firefighters pulled an unconscious Cooper from the March 2012 house fire, they pulled him out in the yard for paramedics to begin resuscitation efforts. He was suffering from severesmoke inhalation. A paramedic treating Cooper grabbed a cyanokit from thebattalion chiefon scene and administered the drug to him.
Cooper was in a coma for a month, and had a difficult, yearlong recovery. Of Minto, Cooper said: “He’s awfully humble, but he is a hero. Even though he was doing his job, he did it without question. He got right in there and got me off the bathroom floor.”
Read the entire story athttp://bit.ly/YZox5n.
For more firefighter training information on smoke inhalation, considerToxicology of Smoke Inhalation,Cyanide: Fire Smoke’s Other “Toxic Twin”, andDangers of Fire Smoke Exposure.
