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On June 24th<\/sup>, off duty Engineer Steve Roberts and Retired LBFD Captain Jack Lee were watching Steve\u2019s son\u2019s high school baseball game at Los Alamitos High School.\u00a0\u00a0 A 14-year-old boy, while at the plate preparing to bunt, was struck in the chest with a fastball.\u00a0 The boy began to run to first base but collapsed unconscious before he could get there.\u00a0 Steve and Jack charged onto the field only to find that the injured player was Jack Lee\u2019s grandson.\u00a0 The boy was in cardiac arrest.\u00a0 Engineer Roberts began rescue breathing and retired Captain Lee began chest compressions. The two continued CPR until the arrival of Orange County Fire Authority Medic 17 who quickly began paramedic level treatment.\u00a0 The boy was transported to a local hospital where he recovered fully and was released 2 days later with no serious deficits from his ordeal.\u00a0 This type of incident demonstrates the importance of immediate bystander CPR followed by rapid advanced life support. Engineer Roberts is a veteran with 19 years of experience. He is currently assigned to Long Beach Fire Station 22.\u00a0 Jack Lee retired form Long Beach as a Fire Captain in October of 2006. In this instance, the skills learned and frequently practiced on the Long Beach Fire Department allowed these individuals to function seamlessly at the critical moment and undoubtedly assisted in the successful resuscitation and salvation of this young life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 On June 24th, off duty Engineer Steve Roberts and Retired LBFD Captain Jack Lee were watching Steve\u2019s son\u2019s high school baseball game at Los Alamitos High School.\u00a0\u00a0 A 14-year-old boy, while at the plate preparing to bunt, was struck in the chest with a fastball.\u00a0 The boy began to run to first base but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}