At 11:20 am on Sunday, East Contra Costa Fire Protection District Engine 52 was dispatched to call in Brentwood where during the response, their engine had a mechanical problem and broke down.
The engine was placed out of service while they waited for a tow truck and a replacement engine. Antioch Station 81 was then dispatched to respond to the call in the area of Lone Tree Way and O’Hara.
While Station 52 crew were waiting on a tow truck near Chuck E. Cheeses, a medical call came in across Lone Tree Way behind Payless Shoes just before noon. Instead of waiting another engine company to respond, Station 52 firefighters grabbed the gear and began a one-fourth mile jog to the patient—including carrying a defibrillator and other equipment.
Firefighters arrive at the store where a worker did not know why firefighters showed up. They reported to her that they got a call of cardiac arrest behind the store. They busted open the back doors of the business sounding off an alarm to find a person performing CPR on a male victim.
Firefighters took over patient care where they used the defibrillator which advised them to shock. By this time, Engine 88 and AMR are now on scene and several more shocks occurred.
When they reached the hospital, they learned they got a pulse from the patient where the hospital staff then took over and the last they saw the patient was alive. The current condition of the patient is unknown.
According to a firefighter, the Station 59 of Discovery Bay picked up the backup Engine from Knightsen and brought it to Chuck E. Cheese while two firefighters went to Sutter Delta working on the cardiac arrest in the ambulance. Firefighters were at Sutter for quite a while until the Captain got all the gear switched over to the back up rig and came to pick us up.
Firefighters credited the AMR crew on the ambulance and the ER at Sutter for helping give the patient a chance to live.
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Good work gentlemen, thank you!
Nice save
Talk about some devotion to duty. Strong work boys!!
Shows their commitment on saving lives
Great job firefighters.
Good Job fire fighters, not only fight fires, save lives also…..
First I must say great job to the FFrs. Second I must comment on ConFire Budget versus ECCFPD. Con Fire has 24 stations and 3 paramedic substations along with it’s huge overhead for 104 million. This comes out to a bit over 4 million a station. Now we look at ECCFPD. It has a budget of 12 million. ECCFPD has 3 stations, no paramedics, and is at the brink of collapse according to the several tax increase attempts yet it costs a bit over 4 million a station. Something is really wrong with the numbers because Confire FFrs make twice what ECCFPD FFrs make and the station costs are the almost the same. ECCFPD even provides less services, lower pay, broken down equipment but has nearly the same cost per fire station. WHY?
Long and short answer; Economy of scale. Costs are spread out and therefore reduced in a larger department. This is why a single city fire department makes little sense compared with the cost savings contained in a larger “district”. Not to mention the increased resources in a larger district.
It’s not rocket science.
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