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INTEROFFI 85-092 rift DATE: June 26, 1985 JUG TO: Mark Bernhardson, ..rono City AY1[mT,•,��jp t�Cator Arthur Kunze, Mayor of Long Lake UY (��r'i),1YA Pat Osmunson, Spring Park City Administ r Brian Bedell, Mayor o- Minnetonka Beach FROM: Melvin Kilbo, Chief of Police SUBJECT: Commendation On May 27, 1985, Orono Police Officer Kurt Erickson responded to a mc•'ical, an asthma attack on a 13 yeai ,ld male, at 519 xter Drive in Long Lake, arriving in two minute= . ..a officer found the bov lying on ..ha floor, extremely blue, no pulse, not •a•h The officer called for Long Lake Rescue st one-man C.P.R. (cardio pulmunary resusci n). .a continued this for about four minutes until Long Lake Fire Rescue arrived on the scene. Fire officers Kelly Schaunnessy, Joe Cesare and Jerry Schmidt joiied Officer Erickson in CPR for about another 12 minutes before North paramedics Blaskey and Coyne arrived. Paramedics started IV'., and drug therapy with little success so helicopter was called with Larry Larson as pilot and crew of Roger Younker and Mike Baccetti. The patient was transferred to North by helicopter. It is the opinion of Doctor Lilja that the patient was clinically dead and that the immediate-F_ectiv. CPR administered by Officer Erickson and L .,g Lake Firemen Schaunnessy, Cesare, and Schmidt, supDlied oxygere d blood to the brain to keep the patient alive to let drugs 9 treatment bring the patient back to consciousness one we- ,ater. Our ci,.izens should be aware of our dedicated t•-I n±d personnel. TO: Mayor and City Council i„6 FROM: Mark Ber[ha.dson, Cit AdministratoV This is another example of the training and dedication of Police officers and Fire Fighters serving Orono. Especially the care and quick thinking on the part of Kurt Erickson who was the pr.m.-Iry -eason Paul Herman is alive today.