Saturday, April 01, 2006

Awards Given For Saving Officer Stein’s Life

Awards Given For Saving Officer Stein’s Life

On January 19 Officer Paul Stein of the St. Charles Police Department, a member of the Metro West SWAT team, was running the required obstacle course when he collapsed and lost consciousness. Several team members acted quickly, determined stein was not breathing and began CPR. Moments later the officers were able to activate and use the Automatic External Defibrillator on Officer Stein, a pulse was detected and he was airlifted by ARCH to St. John’s Mercy Hospital where he successfully recovered from the incident.

On March 29th the St. Charles Police, St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department and the St. Charles County Ambulance district honored, officer Jeff Haislip of the St. Charles Police Department, Detective Tim MacMann, Deputy Tim Dulin and Deputy Tom Jones of the Sheriff’s Department and Sergeant Chad Leyton of the Lake St. Louis Police Department.

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