VIDEO: A Valley man and his family met with the Mesa Fire and Medical team that helped save his life after he went into cardiac arrest.
Albert Meade ran the Mesa Marathon back in February and made it all the way to the finish line and accepted his medal.
“I remember kind of going down to my knees because I was trying to catch my breath and then I remember standing up and basically blacking out, like I don't remember anything up to that point,” Meade recalled. Scott Higgins, the captain paramedic with Mesa Fire and Medical, said they noticed Albert falling backward after he received his medal.
“Looked like he was having a seizure,” Higgins said. “I checked for a pulse as we were wheeling him toward the ambulance, and I didn't feel a pulse.”
Higgins said after eight compressions and other life-saving treatments, they noticed Meade was breathing.
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Helicopters have been used by firefighters for decades, but the H-145 is geared specifically for firefighting operations, and a collaboration between forest service contractor Hillsboro Aviation and Airbus Helicopters.
“You have a large access area,” said Franz Bergtold, director of operations for Hillsboro Aviation as he opened the rear doors of the H-145. “Crosswind conditions, sometimes tailwind conditions require a really good tail rotor.”
Bergtold showed its features, from tail rotor to avionics.
“This is where we get the warning from the aircraft, color-coded, red is bad, yellow needs your attention, white is for information, green is good,” he said as he pointed to a screen in the cockpit. “The helicopter is our fire engine,” said Sean Cox, forest aviation officer for Coronado National Forest as he sat in one of the rear seats of the H-145.
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The Coconino National Forest’s Mogollon Rim Ranger District will begin managing a lightning-caused wildfire sparked on April 29 in an area already slated for a prescribed fire within the coming weeks.
The Wolf Fire is roughly 1 acre as of Thursday, May 2, and located about 3 miles northwest of Clints Well. Fire managers had planned to treat the area of the Wolf Fire, with the Clints prescribed fire project scheduled for later this month, and will be proceeding with land treatment plans following the lightning-sparked ignition.
“These opportunities give us the chance to help fire as it plays its natural role in our fire-adapted ecosystem,” said acting District Ranger True Brown. “We’d already planned to treat this piece of land using prescribed fire. Now, we’re just going to treat it with wildfire. We think this will be a great thing for our nearby communities.”
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