
Engine 17 crew provided oxygen while bystander did compressions
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TAMPA (Tampa Bay Times) – Cruising around in Fire Engine 17 during Sunday morning patrol, Tampa Fire Rescue Capt. Timothy Hayes thought it might be busy around the boat ramp on Davis Islands. It turned out that he was right.
When Hayes and his fire company approached the Davis Islands Dog Park, they noticed a throng of 75 people gathered on the beach, hunched over and panicked. The fire engine slowed down.
“Then a man ran over and said, ‘A dog wasn’t breathing,'” Hayes recalled during a Wednesday afternoon news conference inside Fire Station 17 off Davis Boulevard.
So the firefighters went to work.