7/3/14 - Two Hamburg Township emergency responders are being credited with saving the life of a local boy who went into cardiac arrest on Saturday. At about 1:20am on Saturday, June 28th, township police were dispatched to the area of Merrill and Sheldon Roads for a 16-year-old male in full cardiac arrest. Officer Adam Fischhaber was on the scene within three minutes along with firefighter Devon Peer. They found the boy lying on the ground, not breathing and with no pulse. The pair began administering CPR, and Fischhaber delivered a shock to the boy with the defibrillator carried in his police vehicle. The boy regained his pulse and began breathing on his own as a result. Livingston County EMS arrived on the scene and took over medical care of the boy, who was transported to University of Michigan Ann Arbor and last listed in critical condition. According to a press release, this was the fourth time in the past 18 months a Hamburg police officer has used a defibrillator to save someone from cardiac arrest. The devices are standard equipment on all department vehicles. (TD)
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