[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 27805]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SIX BRAVE OKLAHOMANS

 Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I would like to take a moment to 
recognize the courageous actions of six brave Oklahomans. On August 25, 
2009, in the evening hours of the day, these six men, Daniel Richards, 
David Cox, Nick Niemann, Cody Click, Luck Tucker, and Casey Johnson, 
saved a life. That evening a call came in about a man having severe 
chest pains and possibly a heart attack at a residence in a rural area 
east of the town of Roland, OK. Roland Fire Department first responders 
were paged to respond, and upon their arrival they found a male subject 
lying on the ground not breathing. The six first responders immediately 
started CPR and hooked the individual up to an automated external 
defibrillator and delivered a resuscitating shock from the AED. The 
first responders continued CPR and working with the patient for 12 
minutes until an EMS unit arrived on scene. When the patient was placed 
in the ambulance he was breathing and had a pulse. The patient was 
transported to Spark's Medical Center in Fort Smith, AR, where the 
emergency room doctor stated that the ``firefighters saved this man's 
life.'' The patient needed to have a stint placed in the main artery of 
the heart and suffered some-short term memory loss, but he recovered 
and went home from the hospital in about 7 days. These men are true 
heroes. The town of Roland, the State of Oklahoma, and I are extremely 
thankful to them for their service and honored to have them serving one 
of Oklahoma's finest communities.

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