Two Alamance County Sheriff’s Office deputies recently received an award for helping save someone’s life.
Deputy Joseph Care was presented Thursday with the sheriff’s office’s Lifesaving Award by Sheriff Terry Johnson.
On April 17, Cpl. Phillip Lowe was presented with the Lifesaving Award.
On Saturday, April 20, at 4 p.m., Care was sent to a residence in southeastern Alamance County near Saxapahaw after a report that someone there was unconscious. Care arrived within three minutes and found the patient, who had no pulse. Care immediately began CPR and continued it until the arrival of the Eli Whitney Fire Department and Alamance County EMS. The patient regained a pulse and was taken to the hospital.
Hospital staff told supervisor, Lt. Taylor Ray, three days later that the patient was alive and receiving treatment. Ray nominated Care for the Lifesaving Award.
“I believe that Deputy Care’s quick response and actions resulted in the patient still being alive today. His training and experience show the high level of the employee he is, and continues to be, for the citizens of Alamance County,” Ray said in his nomination.
On March 29, Lowe was first to arrive on the scene after a man accidentally shot himself on a hunting trip. The man reportedly had been preparing to go hunting, placed a shotgun in the back of his vehicle, and the gun accidentally discharged.
Lowe immediately prepared a tourniquet and then worked with EMS to apply it until the man was taken to a hospital.
