A 78-year old Sydney resident was saved with CPR by casino staff at Casino Nova Scotia. Jamael was having their regular weekly lunch at Celtic Junction Bar & Grille restaurant and trying his luck on some of the machines. Scary turn of events The day shifted into a scary ordeal when Jamael went into cardiac […]
A Sydney man was given CPR after he was struggling in the surf. According to the brother of the Sydney man who died of a suspected drowning, his brother was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Greg MacDonald, 59-years old along with his wife Sharon were standing together holding hands in waist deep
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A Yarmouth County man died during kite surfing despite delivery of CPR. Family and fiends were saddened by the incident. According to Meteghan RCMP, they received a call to Mavillette Beach alerting them about a 53-year old man who was in distress while kite surfing with others. Despite the efforts to resuscitate him, the died
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A 17-year old was killed despite CPR. According to the mother, his son was hit and died on a Cape Breton highway while he was bending over to tie his shoe while walking home from a graduation party. According to Jenn Hanna, her son Joneil was attending a graduation house party in Leitches Creek. He
One of the students of University of Toronto died despite CPR while attending an engineering survey camp. Based on a note released by the dean of engineering faculty to staff and students, the 18-year old civil engineering student died at the facility on Gull Lake. The Ontario Provincial Police confirmed that the 18-year old man
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A woman frantically requested an emergency dispatcher to assist in performing CPR during a 911 call as she and others struggle in vain to save the life of Olympic skier Bode Miller’s 19-month old daughter after the child fell into a swimming pool. Dangers of water The 19-month old girl fell into a backyard pool
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The investigators will meet with parents of a 2-year old girl who almost drowned in the family bathtub in Lachine. Drowning incident The paramedics had to revive the girl after her parents found her unconscious in the tub. The child is in critical condition at a healthcare facility in Montreal. According to the police, the
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The National Film Board is buying 4 defibrillators for its Montreal headquarters after the death of an employee. The man who worked in film colorization experienced a cardiac episode and collapsed near the coffee machine at work. According to the union, when a colleague called 911, the dispatcher asked if there was a defibrillator nearby.
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For 10 minutes, the life of Sean Ferguson was in the hands of his friends and teammates. Due to the quick thinking by members of the Sydney Sooners, they helped Ferguson when he suffered a cardiac arrest. Helping hands According to Kenny Long, they were playing basketball and he collapsed. He had a look in
Ken Dakin prayed for a miracle after his wife and son were struck by lightning. The incident occurred on the weekend at their cabin on a west-central Saskatchewan lake. According to Dakin, a retired Mountie, he was on his knees and praying for his son and wife. Lightning strike Blaine Dakin, 29-years old and mother
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Sean Ferguson stated that he wound not get mad about striking out again. The 23-year old Sydney Sooners catcher was back playing baseball after a cardiac arrest in spring. He collapsed while playing basketball with friends at Sullivan Field House. The group included his teammates. By performing CPR and using a defibrillator, the rapid thinking
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Brendan Childerley could not recall the moments leading up to a heart attack. It was this incident that brought his university hockey career to a sudden end. Childerley started to feel sick during an intermission after the first overtime period of Acadia’s semifinal game against the Antigonish-based St. FX team. Unexpected ordeal during the game
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The brother of a Sydney man who died of a suspected drowning stated that his sibling was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Unforeseen ordeal in the water According to Gerald MacDonald, Greg MacDonald, 59-years old and his wife, Sharon were standing together, holding hands in waist deep water at the lifeguarded beach
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Rifle-toting police gathered in a Baltimore suburb where a female office was fatally shot. The police are searching for suspects believed to be armed after witnesses reported gunfire and seeing the officer run over by a Jeep. The officer was badly injured. Several people attempted to keep her alive but she was later declared dead
A 21-year old man drowned in Lac St-Pierre in Val-des-Monts in the Outaouais. The man was at a friend’s party on private land when he decided to perform a somersault into the lake around midnight. Watery ordeal The man did not surface and according to the MRC des Collines police Sergeant Daniel Parizeau, none of
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A 19-year-old man was stabbed and severely injured at an Edmonton LRT platform. The victim who was not yet identified was stabbed several times. According to the police the attack was “unprovoked” that happened at the South Campus LRT station. While the victim was waiting for the train, he was just stabbed in the chest
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A man is dead and a woman in serious condition after a three-car-crash on the Malahat. According to the British Columbia Emergency Health Services they were sent to the northbound lane of the Vancouver Island near Aspen Road of Victoria. They confirmed one person is dead. The dead man has been identified as David James
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A mail bomber was arrested for attempts to murder his ex-wife and two lawyers from Winnipeg. The bombs were sent through a mail in 2015. The man named Guido Amsel was sentenced to life imprisonment. First aid for victim According to Constable Paul Barker, he was on patrol when he received a report of a
The Consumers’ Association of Canada urges the Senate to include medical supplies and AED or automated external defibrillator to be considered in legislation that will result to a new bill of rights of airline passengers. Need for more defibrillators This was suggested by one of the passengers aboard a WestJet flight from Hawaii to Calgary
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Extreme Air Park denies allegations of a mother, saying that first aid services of the park are inadequate. Parents came forward with safety concerns for their children after an incident in the park where a child was injured. Poor delivery of first aid According to two concerned mothers, Sarah Villanueva and Cat Korpela, claims the
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