Rapid Response Saves Veteran Firefighter and Paramedic Having Heart Attack

TUCKER, Ga. (Fox5 Atlanta) - The day that changed everything for Dave Galbraith began like any other. It was March 22,  2017.  Captain Galbraith was at his desk at DeKalb County Fire Rescue headquarters in Tucker. About 11 in the morning,  the then 46-year old veteran firefighter/paramedic began to feel off. "And started having a full, heavy, almost a pressure feeling in my torso, up into my shoulders, and down my arms," Galbraith says. So he got up and tried to walk off the pressure.Galbraith had spent years as a paramedic, working to save heart attack patients. Now, the paramedic was becoming a patient himself. Read more...
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