By EMS1 Staff
DURHAM, N.C. — An off-duty paramedic who happened upon a fatal vehicle crash scene saved a passenger whose arm had been severed in the incident.
ABC11 reported that paramedic Christopher Langdon was on his way to work when he smelled burning rubber and saw that firefighters were just arriving at a crash scene.
Langdon stopped to see what the situation was and found that Cassandra Moseley’s SUV doors were jammed and she was bleeding from her severed arm, crying for help. Her mother-in-law was killed in the crash.
Langdon grabbed his emergency tourniquet from his car and applied it to Moseley’s arm, which her family now credits for saving her life.
Langdon said he doesn’t consider himself a hero after saving Moseley’s life.
“I was just doing my job,” Langdon said. “It’s what I do. It’s what I love. If it wasn’t for all the help I had on scene, I wouldn’t have been able to do it effectively.”