Brookfield’s police and fire departments have long had a good working relationship, but Fire Chief David Masirovits recently stepped up the pat-on-the back game with a Facebook post and plaques thanking three policemen for helping on “back to back, very serious EMS calls” on March 20.
Masirovits said he didn’t want to make too big a fuss publicly because of the sensitive nature of the medical calls, but he noted patrolmen John Bizub, Nicholas Leonardo and Clayton Burrows went above and beyond to try and save two lives.
Bizub was a part-time firefighter and emergency medical technician with Brookfield before taking the full-time police job.
The first call was the cardiac arrest of a young adult. The policemen used an AED heart-shocking device twice and started CPR before the fire department’s medial personnel arrived, Masirovits said.
On the second call, where the patient was bleeding heavily, “Officers didn’t hesitate to jump right in, put on tourniquets, actually assisted us all the way to the hospital, putting pressure on the wounds,” Masirovits said.
“We had three of us in the ambulance, two people from Vienna in the ambulance and an officer in the ambulance,” he said. “We needed all of that manpower to get this person to the hospital.”
When police officers respond to a medical call, they often arrive first and report back to the medical responders on what they will face when they arrive on scene. The police officers also will clear the route so an ambulance can more quickly get to the hospital.
Police Chief Dan Faustino said the police department responds when it can.
“I act like I’m surprised, but I shouldn’t,” said Trustee Dan Suttles. “Your guys have done that. You don’t usually stand back and say, ‘You guys handle it.’ I know that.”
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