Over the Thanksgiving weekend, deputies of the Teller County Sheriff’s Office rendered life-saving measures on two separate occasions, actions that were credited for saving the lives of several residents and even first-responders.
On November 30, Deputy Colton Sherraden was at his home preparing for a shift when he received a call from a dispatcher.
Dispatch told the deputy that they received a 911 call but they could not understand what the person on the other end of the line was trying to say. The dispatcher did get the caller’s address, and quickly realized that while Sherraden was at home, he was the closest first responder to the scene.
Just before 2 p.m., Sherraden left his house, called in to start his shift and arrived on scene in 15 seconds after he left his house and less than two minutes after the 911 call was placed. As soon as he arrived, the deputy heard someone moaning coming from inside the house and smelled a strong odor of propane.
Risking exposure to propane, Deputy Sherraden entered the home and found an elderly man lying on the floor moaning and unable to speak. Sherraden quickly got to work and opened doors and windows to create air flow inside the home. He then found the propane sourced and turned it off.
Sherraden’s quick actions were applauded for eliminating the potential risk for himself, the elderly man and the other first responders who arrived on scene. “Deputy Sherraden’s proximity, quick thinking, and decisive actions at great risk to himself were all factors in saving the life of one of our fellow Teller County residents,” the sheriff’s office said in a social media post.
Then on December 1, a woman was travelling home with her family from cutting a Christmas tree. She then suddenly experienced a medical emergency and lost consciousness. The family pulled into the parking lot of the Teller County Sheriff’s Office and called 911.
“Deputies Davis Power and Kyle Perkins arrived quickly at the parking lot where the woman was lying on the ground, surrounded by the family,” the sheriff’s social media post reported. “The deputies assessed the woman and found she was not breathing and had no pulse. They immediately began CPR to save her life. Through their efforts, the woman regained a pulse and began to breathe again. But she remained unconscious.”
Then after a few minutes, the woman stopped breathing again and her pulse started to fade. The deputies went back to work with CPR in an attempt to establish breathing and a pulse.
The deputies worked on multiple CPR cycles to try to save the woman’s life for about 10 minutes. Paramedics then arrived, stabilized her and transported the woman to a local medical facility.
