ORLEANS – Orleans Fire reports that at about 11:14 AM Wednesday morning, Coast Guard Chatham station received a call from a lobster fishing vessel with a seriously ill fisherman several miles off the Nauset Inlet. An Eastham marine unit was already underway in Nauset Harbor and responded as did an Orleans Harbormaster unit with four Orleans firefighters aboard. The Eastham marine unit transferred the victim onto their vessel and then onto the Orleans Harbormaster boat.
The patient was brought to shore to a waiting Orleans ambulance which rushed him to Cape Cod Hospital. Orleans Police assisted at the scene. The patient’s condition was unknown at this time.
The CPR device nicknamed “Thumper” can be seen in the photo working on the man’s chest. The Automatic CPR unit does the compression’s for the paramedics freeing them up to do other things for the patient and not exhausting the firefighter personnel.
Media release furnished by Orleans Fire
Photo by Jake O’Callaghan/CWN
