Police and E.M.S. Honored for Saving a Life
The Suffolk Regional Emergency Medical Services Council on Jan. 9 recognized an emergency-response team that had saved the life of a man who had collapsed in early January in East Hampton Village. The team that used CPR and an automatic defibrillator during the call included two emergency critical-care technicians, Corin Oley and Randy Hoffman, and Lisa Charde, Kerry Griffiths, and Sheila Dunlop of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association; Theodore Pharaoh, James Patterson, Brendan Wirth, Jack Bartelme, and Christian Denton, all East Hampton Village police officers; Sgt. Steven Sheades, and Wayne Gauger, another police officer.