Hero Fire Cadet and Sound Production student Logan Robertson, pushed his skills to a whole new level recently by helping to save the life of a woman in need.
Logan (17) from Sauchie was on lunch-break from his NC Sound Production course at Forth Valley College’s Stirling Campus, and took a walk towards a shop in Raploch with his classmates.
Not long after they had left the Campus on Drip Road, they were beckoned on by three women carers who had emerged from a house doorway, asking if anybody in the group of students knew how to perform CPR.
Logan – who had received this kind of training Alloa Fire Cadets where he is a member – immediately volunteered to offer his services and sprung into action. He asked them what had happened and they led him to a woman in her early 60s who wasn’t breathing.
He said: “The women carers were unsure whether to call the police or the ambulance, and I told them ambulance. Then I asked if they had a defibrillator and a resuscitation mask and they said yes, which they brought to the side of the woman.
“I then started 30 chest compressions and two breathes on the mouth through the mask. She did not respond, so I shocked her twice with the defib and then carried on with three more rounds of CPR. After a second set of shocks, an advanced paramedic turned up and told me to keep on working on the woman, so he could get his own equipment set up, which I did.
“About 30 seconds later the ambulance and paramedics arrived and one of the crew took over from me. After another round of CPR the woman began to respond and come round. I myself was then taken to the ambulance to be checked over.
“One of the paramedics told me that if wasn’t for me, they did not know if she would have made it. But it wasn’t until a few days afterwards before it really sank in for me…I just left the scene and went back to college for my afternoon classes!
“When I think on it now I am really quite proud of myself and really pleased that I learned these skills at the Fire Cadets. I hope one day to become a fireman and this is the sort of thing that I might need to do, so it may well have prepared me in a small way. I would 100% recommend young people especially to get trained in these CPR skills as you never know when you might need to use them.”
Alison Harris, FVC Support and Guidance Advisor who has worked closely with Logan since he has started at the College, said: “I’m so proud of Logan for the bravery he showed to a member of the public, he is an absolute trooper by responding swiftly and effortlessly to save a life without a second thought! This new chapter in Logan’s learning pathway has certainly started with excitement and yet he still managed to go back to class, what a hero.”