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Suffolk PD Officers Hailed As Heroes For Reviving Holtsville Woman Suffolk PD Officers Hailed As Heroes For Reviving Holtsville Woman
Suffolk PD Officers Hailed As Heroes For Reviving Holtsville Woman Two Long Island police officers are being honored for helping to save a woman in medical distress. The incident took place in Holtsville around 5:50 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13. According to the Suffolk County Police, Officers Frederick Reed and Stacey Byrnes along with the Holbrook Fire Department provided life-saving aid to a woman in medical distress in Holbrook. Reed and Byrnes responded to a 911 call from a 60-year-old woman suffering from cardiac arrest at her residence on Mews Court, police said. When they arrived, the woman was found unresponsive and without a pulse. The t…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Police Resue Man Who Collapsed While Clearing Snow In Suffolk County Police Resue Man Who Collapsed While Clearing Snow In Suffolk County
Police Resue Man Who Collapsed While Clearing Snow In Suffolk County Police have rescued a man who collapsed while clearing snow from his Long Island property. Suffolk County Police Officers Terence Slane and Tristen David responded to a home on Hyman Avenue in West Islip at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 29, after receiving a report from a neighbor that a man had collapsed while using a snowblower. SCPD said the 71-year-old man was found in cardiac distress and without a pulse. Officers gave the man CPR and used an Automatic External Defibrillator so that man could regain a pulse, police said. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in crit…

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by Nicole Valinote