Fortuna Police Officer, Ferndale High Graduate Awarded Medal for Saving Life
Press release from the Fortuna Police Department:
Fortuna Police Officer Jordan Walstrom will be awarded the Police Life Saving Medal at the February 20th City Council meeting by Chief of Police William Dobberstein. He will be presented with the award for saving the life of a Fortuna resident, last month, during a medical emergency.
On the morning of January 21st,, 2018, Officer Walstrom was dispatched to a medical call reported as a man bleeding from a post-surgical procedure. Arriving before ambulance personnel, Walstrom quickly assessed the situation and expertly applied a pressure dressing. However, the bandage was insufficient to stem the flow of blood coming from a femoral artery bleed. Quickly realizing this to be a life-threatening situation, Walstrom applied a combat application tourniquet which he carries as part of his emergency gear, and which he has been trained to use.
The gentleman’s condition was quickly stabilized by these actions prior to medical responders arriving and transporting the gentleman to the hospital. Medical personnel at the hospital said that Walstrom’s quick thinking and prompt actions literally saved the man’s life; that without his intervention the man would have bled to death within minutes.
Walstrom joined the Fortuna Police department in November of 2017 and is already one of just a handful of officers who has been awarded the Life Saving Medal in our department.
He is a 2011 graduate of Ferndale High School, and a 2014 graduate of the Redwoods Police Academy. Prior to joining Fortuna Police e he served as an officer with Rio Dell Police, as a volunteer Firefighter in Loleta and as an Emergency Medical Technician with City Ambulance of Eureka.
Walstrom is one of the officers hired in recent months by Fortuna Police Department with Measure E funding.
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What a good story!!!!! Saving a life is amazing!
Looks like we got us a real officer! Great job sir!
Are you implying that the other 16 Fortuna Officers arenot “Real Officers”? Rude!!!!!
That remark is a stretch even for today’s microaggession inquisition.
No what I meant is the few other rookies just hired ain’t worth shit. How’s that, better?
Just to be fair, name another Fortuna officer to receive this award…
I was wrong. That was the proper interpretation of Gazoo’s remark.
Well done sir!!!
Thank you Officer Walstrom!!
You’re the man Officer Walstrom 👮♂️!!!
Post surgical procedure? What “post” surgical procedure causes the femoral artery to be compromised?
The patient went to a local hospital to have his/her tonsils removed. This is what you get in Humboldt for medical care.
Hip replacement? Anyway hospitals send patients home these days at the speed of light.
Way to go, Walstrom! Always been a great guy and even cooler to see him being the awesome hero that he strives to be!
Thank you, Officer Walstrom. This man is alive today thanks to your quick thinking.
Thanks also to the citizens of Fortuna for passing Measure E, thus providing the means for Fortuna to hire exemplary police officers like Officer Walstrom.
Sounds like a standup guy. I think all cops should have EMT level training. If theyre trained on how to take a life they oughta know how to save one as well. (I think the good ones mostly already do…)
Why to go Officer Walstrom!
Awesome job!
Doesn’t surprise me a bit.. Wally was a great friend growing up in the same class as my son @ Ferndale. He always said he was going to be a cop. I knew he’d be a good one. Congrats dude!