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Off-duty nurse and lifeguards revive man with CPR, AED shock at Gloucester beach
The man had been pulled unresponsive from the water at Good Harbor Beach.
An off-duty nurse and city lifeguards saved a man’s life at Gloucester’s Good Harbor Beach on Tuesday afternoon, according to the city’s fire chief, Eric Smith.
The nurse and lifeguards pulled the unresponsive 77-year-old man from the water at about 12:35 p.m., according to a release from local authorities. They then began CPR and administered one shock from an automated external defibrillator, prior to the city’s first responders arriving at the scene.
When police and fire personnel did arrive, the man was breathing and responsive on the beach. He was initially taken to Addison Gilbert Hospital and then the ICU at Beverly Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
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The release identified the lifeguards as Missy Lohnes and John Dalone.
“I want to thank them all for their quick, compassionate, and effective response,” Smith said of the nurse and lifeguards. “This patient was already being well cared for when we arrived on scene, and that quick response by those at the beach was critical in ensuring this incident had a positive outcome.”
Later in the day, bystanders assisted in another water rescue in Gloucester. Three children, ages 5, 8, and 14, were pulled from the Annisquam River at about 7 p.m. As of Wednesday morning, the 5-year-old and 14-year-old girls were in critical and serious condition, respectively, at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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Elsewhere in the state, an 8-year-old boy died Wednesday after he was pulled from a Clinton pond.
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