Two local men went outside their job description to help save a life last Wednesday.
Matt Bradeen and Jesse McMurphy, from SK Form & Finish, were working on site at Willow Park mall in Rutland when a lady alerted them of a man that had collapsed nearby.
The two men ran over to the man in distress and got to a different kind of work.
“He was obviously in distress,” Bradeen told KelownaNow. “So we flipped him over, opened up his airways and gave CPR to him for about six or seven minutes until an ambulance arrived.”
According to Bradeen, the man was suffering from a heroin overdose.
When paramedics arrived on site, they administered a naloxone shot and Bradeen says the victim pretty much popped right up.
Bradeen and McMurphy were in the right place at the right time, but it was also a case of great timing.
Bradeen says he took the level one occupational first aid course only three weeks ago, and this incident was his first time ever giving CPR.
This particular incident also supports the idea of having naloxone kits ready and available in all work trucks, something Bradeen can support.
“It wouldn’t be a bad idea.”
Hopefully for Bradeen and McMurphy, that’s not an issue they have to deal with again in the near future.
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