Officials with the Owensboro Fire Department say advanced life support training curricula they received in September may be contributing to unusually high save rates for medical calls in the city.
For the month of October, crews staffed with trainees were able to successfully resuscitate 83 percent of the time, compared to an 11 percent national average.
That's remarkable, says Fire Chief Steve Mitchell, but it gets better. The Station 3 third-shift engine crew on the city's northwest side is often regarded as one of the busiest in the city, and it saved 100 percent of cardiac and respiratory arrest victims during that month.