Hero at Accident Scene Deserves Recognition
* As an eyewitness to a fatal accident you reported on July 7, I was saddened to see that a real hero, the man who tried to revive the victim, was not properly acknowledged.
Not one other person in the growing crowd would assist. Only John L. Grogan, a local private investigator, ever came within 10 feet of the victim. He alone performed CPR, after prying open the victim’s door and carrying him out of the truck and after removing a lower denture from deep in the victim’s throat.
Despite the body’s ravaged condition (forehead and chest caved in, eyes locked open and glazed), the man did not ever stop the CPR, except to catch his breath while offering words of comfort and encouragement.
The man’s 15 minutes of CPR produced a pulse where there was none before.
DEBRA BURDETTE
West Hills
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