Radio traffic & video: Fire chief reported conscious after CPR at multi-alarm fire in Mount Carmel, PA
UPDATE: On Facebook Chief James Reed’s son says his father has some airway burns and is at the burn unit of Lehigh Valley Hospital.
Eric Sccicchitano NewsItem.com:
Borough Fire Chief James Reed, the firefighter carried unconscious from a burning home in Mount Carmel earlier today, was conscious and talking to emergency responders by the time he was loaded into Life Flight helicopter at Mount Carmel Area High School, according to borough police chief Todd Owens.
In fact, Owens said, Reed asked if the fire had been knocked down yet.
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Elysburg Ambulance personnel had Reed intubated and were “pacing him with a heart monitor,” Owens said.
Reed is a longtime firefighter in the borough and president of American Hose and Chemical Fire Company, one of the borough’s fire companies.
Reed was carried on a gurney from one of the burning homes, with emergency responders performing CPR outside the house.
At least one person taken away in ambulance as the fire still burns on Walnut Street in Mount Carmel. @WNEP pic.twitter.com/Ex8oqtkgAw
— Jackie De Tore (@jackiedetore) March 16, 2015
Pics from Mt. Carmel fire pic.twitter.com/rog7m4RHcR
— SECV 8 News (@SECV8News) March 16, 2015
7 row homes in Mt Carmel burning, firefighter life flighted to Geisinger in 3 alarm fire @wbrewyou pic.twitter.com/bsheiEACxx
— Valerie Tysanner (@valerietysanner) March 16, 2015
