CPR in Progress After Person Pulled From Water at Miranda Bridge
At about 7:55 p.m., emergency dispatch sent law enforcement, fire, and medical to respond to a reported CPR in progress after a person was pulled from the water near the Miranda Bridge. The dispatcher later clarified that this was on the 101 side of the Eel River near a blue vehicle.
The dispatcher victim relayed information from a person reporting the incident to emergency personnel who are responding and said that the person may have been possibly bleeding but “no injuries were seen.”
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Was this related to the accident…???
https://kymkemp.com/2024/07/09/one-vehicle-on-the-guardrail-after-crash-near-miranda/
No it wasn’t. I was there me and my friends got him out of the water and gave compressions and kept him alive for half an hour.
When the paramedics finally arrived and got there they decided to use it as a teaching experience for a trainee that ended with him dying.
So tragic. I’m at a loss for words. Sympathies to y’all for your loss. And quick Healing for your scars.
Thanks to you and your friends for your efforts.
Compressions? Did you breathe for them? How did you know it was a trainee? What level of training do you have?
This situation is never. NEVER a teaching situation. I’ve Been there. THERE. not Here. Gave CPR to Infants for 30 + minutes. To Have Them die. ?. Its Life and death. I don’t Want The Bastard to Win. You Do know what its like out there. You think you do. But you dont. Until you have been there. Hold your loved ones. It only takes a second. And they…. Or you are gone
Thank you to you and your friends for doing your very best to keep him alive until medical aid could arrive. It is folks like you and your friends that make the world a little better place to live.
What do you mean you kept him Alive for 30 min? You do realize that you are suppose to have someone call 9-11 at the start of CPR! That way fire and Ambulance can be there within 10-15 min and give oxygen and start an AED to try to shock? So When did you call 911? Because if you really did CPR FOR 30 min, you must have waited to call 911? Because scanner traffic shows that Local fire dept were there within 10 min of the 9-11 dispatched call. They are only 1 mile away. When they arrived I’m sure they took over CPR. Ambulance wasn’t on scene for about another 10 min after Fire. So tell me what this supposed trainee could of done to revive a 30- 45 min duration of pulseless /unresponsiveness? Also do you guys know what made your friend drowned? Drownings are rare in this part of the Eel.
Knock it off. Response time to there is 30 minutes.
Quit trying to nit pick. It is traumatic enough for them. You obviously have zero experience and just want to bash some.one.
You were not there and don’t know what happened so just STFU
I live nearby and The volunteer fire dept is one mile away, 10 min or less response time. Also cal fire 15 min away in Weott. I Heard the whole thing on the scanner. Fire dept was at scene 10 min after the call came out. Cal fire arrived about 5 min later. So 30 min response time is incorrect. Any one having CPR performed on them is already clinically dead. This person was long gone before the paramedics made it down the river bar. So Blaming ambulance for death is nonsense. I’m not bashing anyone, I think they made a mistake by not calling 9-11 soon enough that’s all.
Good question!
I lived in Miranda for many years and as kids we would jump off the bridge into the water, but knowing where all the rocks and debris were located saved us from serious injury or death. It sent chills down my spine when I read, he had passed while being worked on by a trainee Paramedic. That is not the time or place for training when someone’s life hangs in the balance. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. May he RIP.
I’m sure the paramedics did everything they could, their had been no pulse for over 40 minutes likely. “Not a real name stated they did cpr for 30 min.’ That means they didn’t call 9-11 for a long time after the patient went unresponsive. Because local fire Depts and cal fire were there within 10 min of the emergency dispatch. So when did this 30 min of CPR happen? Also anyone working on Ambulance in Ca has undergone thousands of hours of training and is legally certified to provide life saving measures whether new to the Job or not. With no pulse for 40 min, nothing was bringing this person back, even of by some miracle they had. he probably would of been brain dead by the time EMS arrived. 30 min with out oxygen is a killer in its self.
Sad situation, but blaming EMS is wrong.
If you’ve ever had to give CPR then you’d know 10 minutes can feel like a lifetime. And if you’ve ever lost someone after giving CPR then you’d understand the grief process that follows.
Look guys, I am the one who gave him CPR for approximately 18 ish minutes prior to EMS arrival. It was very traumatic for everyone involved. Your opinion cannot bring him back, nor would it have saved his life. Be grateful there are locals in the area willing to put their own lives at risk to try and save yours.
For the assumptions being made, my my how incorrect you are sir, as I was still struggling to pull the drowning 60-year old muscle mass-weighted MAN from the running current in the middle of the water directly under the Miranda bridge for what seemed like a lifetime after having been pushed to the bottom and nearly drowned my self TWICE, when the people HE was with failed to call 911 so a family member of mine called while I personally gave the man mouth to mouth and chest compression while on the phone with dispatch for the duration of point of exit to point of arrival. Pulse active, lungs expanding, fluid cleared, the man began to asphyxiate upon EMS arrival, they moved him further from the water and began to train a new EMT on how to handle the situation, laughing when he misplaced the traech, snickering over his lack of ability to seal the oxygen mask probably, such forth and so on. Myself and my best friend almost lost our own lives trying to save this man, and you people think you have any idea of what happens. Grow up. It’s people like you that create polarity and biases in small communities.
Thank u to the person or persons that tried to help save that mans life, that man was my husband/ex-husband/best friend and my 12 yr old sons dad, the whole situation was so wrong it is so so so devastating almost, to know that someone’s life is actually worth so little to someone else, those people that was with him are 1000% at fault for my husband dieing, just as the EMS had a helping hand by allowing an in training person to try n learn on somebody that had their life in that person hands n to think that they would be even smirking or laughing about messing up on the possibility of maybe saving his life, unfortunately the end result was with him dieing n my son loosing his dad, I will never get past the heart ache n pain that me n my kids have been feeling because of this whole thing. As most of u do not know n maybe a couple of u might or do. Those people had drugged that mans drink to rob him, which is exactly what they did, for several thousand dollars, and some watches, worth a lot of money, and misc. Jewelry, the sad part is that he would have given it to any one of them, they did not know that there was underlying health issues with his heart n lungs that because of the seriousness n how bad they both were, that when they gave him a cocktail, I don’t believe intending to actually kill him, but to knock him out and rob him, when she realized that something seriously was wrong, her or both of them, I’m not sure which, put him into her friends/husbands, blue truck, and drove him down to the river, she then proceeded on walking him into the river, either her herself or him or both of the people that brot him down to that river, is either from there or knows that area well and counted on the fact that there would be witnesses as to them trying to cover it up by trying to make it look like he was highly intoxicated and that he drown, they never once stopped to think what the possibile out come “could and did” end with the death of a little boys dad or how our family and friends are never going to be able to except that this man died for a few lousy dollars, weather intentional or not, it has the same end result and it can not be undone, no matter how much we would trade that man places if it would make anything any different but unfortunately, some things can’t be undone and my heart is broken, not only for my family amd friends but for those people that held his life as such little value that they didn’t even call 911 or try and correct their wrong by maybe informing the EMS that he actually wasn’t drowning, that he actually had been given a cocktail resulting in the condition of his heart actually going into cardiac arrest because of the drugs that had been given to him, the outcome of him loosing his life possibly could have been saved, instead of just standing there and not calling 911 to try n make sure he did die. My thanks to any and all that did try and do what they possibly could to try n save his life, the world needs more people like u in it, the world wouldn’t be such a messed up cold hearted, greed stricken, place that most people resort to drugs to try n escape how ugly they have become n it makes me sick to know that my husband’s life or any one else’s for that matter can be worth so little n taken for nothing more than a few pieces of paper for the most point, how dare them.