Stoughton Fire Chief Recounts Saving Man’s Life While on Vacation
Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff shares the story of how he helped save a man in cardiac arrest this past Friday afternoon while on vacation in St. Thomas.
Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff’s recent vacation in St. Thomas ended in nothing less than heroism when he saved the life of a fellow vacationer in cardiac arrest this past Friday afternoon. Dolloff and his wife, Teresa, were on vacation with three other couples. They went back to the hotel for lunch, but the Dolloffs decided to stay on the beach. “I was in the right place at the right time”, said Dolloff, who returned Saturday evening from the vacation. It was Friday, around 1 p.m. while Dolloff and his wife, Teresa, sat on Frenchman’s Cove Beach that Dolloff noticed commotion in the water. “I heard someone yell, “I can’t pull him in”...[that’s when] I threw my stuff down and ran to the water,” he recalls. Dolloff said his wife, who …
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concerned citizen
4:23 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
You are a hero. I was on the Old Silver Beach this summer and a man was brought in on a jet ski after the kyack he was in turned over. A doctor and nurse did CPR for approx 45 minutes before an ambulance showed up with no defirb equipment. The man died . But they sure kept going. Lifeguards should be trained and have theproper equipment. more ›