April 2021 Call of the Month Metro Paramedic-Firefighters assigned to Rosemont Public Safety Department were dispatched by NORCOMM Public Safety Communications for a subject with difficulty breathing. While en route to the call, NORCOMM Telecommunicators advised the responding units that CPR was being performed on the now unresponsive patient. Rosemont Public Safety Department’s Tom Lane, […]
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March 2021 Call of the Month Rosemont Public Safety responded to a report of a person in cardiac arrest. Rosemont Ambulance 57, staffed by Metro Paramedic Firefighters Patrick Marshall and John Rizzuto, responded with police and fire units. A visitor staying at a local hotel had lost consciousness in front of family members, who called
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March 2021 Call of the Month Metro Paramedic Employees assigned to the North Park Fire Protection District were dispatched for a water rescue for a report of a drowning victim. During weekday time staffing hours, North Park is staffed by a three-person engine company and one ambulance staffed with a full-time Metro Paramedic employee and
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February 2021 Call of the Month Metro Paramedic Employees assigned to Rosemont Public Safety Department were dispatched by NORCOMM Public Safety Communications for a subject with difficulty breathing. While en route to the call, NORCOMM Telecommunicators Mark Ducar Jr. and Mark Sicco advised the responding units that the patient had become unresponsive and that they
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June 2020 Call of the Month Metro Paramedic Employees assigned to the Elwood Fire Protection District are being awarded Metro’s June 2020 Call of the Month. On Friday, June 12, 2020, the crews were dispatched to the industrial site for a patient who was bleeding. On arrival, crews made contact with a conscious, alert, and
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May 2020 Call of the Month Metro Paramedic Services is proud to announce the May 2020 Call of the month for its employees assigned to the Lyons Fire Department. Lyons Fire Department was dispatched for a person who was drowning. Upon arrival, the patient had already been pulled from the water by a neighboring department
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April 2020 Call of the Month At 4:15 am, on April 15, 2020, Rosemont Public Safety Department (RPSD) was dispatched to Interstate 190 in Rosemont for a multiple vehicle accident. Approximately 25 vehicles were involved in a pile-up collision due to snowy road conditions. Crews were met with cold temperatures, active snowfall, and roads so
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The Metro Paramedics March 2020 Call of the Month goes to the Sandwich Community Fire Protection District. Sandwich Chief Derek Hagerty nominated the crew of Ian Cerney and Connor Laube for their work on March 26 when they responded to a call involving a possible seizure. The crew arrived on the scene and found the
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February 2020 Call of the Month Metro employees Todd Taylor and Trevor Korinek, assigned to the Roselle Fire Department contract, responded to a call for a psychiatric evaluation. But upon arrival on the scene, they were confronted with a much different set of circumstances. They quickly assessed their patient who was unresponsive with inadequate ventilations,
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Minooka, Sandwich FPDs Recognized for January Calls Metro Paramedic Services (Metro) recognizes two of its employees assigned to the Minooka Fire Protection District for the January 2020 Call of the Month for a response to a unique call for a subject who became trapped, requiring a Technical Rescue. The subject was trapped from the waist
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