When the firefighters reached him, Dean Grover was already dead. The 45-year-old contractor at the Aerospace Data Facility was in cardiac arrest, had no heartbeat and was not breathing. Despite this, he was in good hands.
“We had no idea what the call was when we arrived,” said Buckley Fire Chief Dennis Hoke, a firefighter and paramedic, “But we always take equipment for the worst – a cardiac arrest.”
By the time the firefighters arrived, the ADF first responder team was performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and had already shocked Mr. Grover twice with their automated external defibrillator. Moving Mr. Grover to the hallway, the firefighters quickly took over from the first responders.
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