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Fire medical director saves fellow racer in Boston run

By O’RYAN JOHNSON
Boston Herald (Massachusetts)

The medical director of the Boston Fire Department organized a running club among firefighters as a way to help jakes stay in shape and save lives down the road. He never thought that by running himself he would save the life of a man who collapsed on the road in front of him.

Dr. Michael Hamrock was running 8-minute miles during Boston’s Run to Remember March 12 when he noticed a bottleneck in the road and saw a runner down on the pavement near Western Avenue in Cambridge.

He looked like someone checking out of this world, Hamrock said. I turned him on his back, did a look, listen and feel and discovered he was in cardiac arrest. I hopped on his chest and started performing compressions.

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