By Amy Moore
The Beaumont Enterprise
KIRBYVILLE, Texas — A man suffering from a heart attack died Tuesday and the Kirbyville police chief is concerned that the length of time it took an ambulance to get to the scene may have played a role in the death.
Chief Jeff Clopp said he’s not a medical professional and cannot say that the 49-year-old would have lived if an ambulance arrived sooner than the 20 minutes it took to get there.
“I can’t blame the ambulance folks and I’m not going to blame them,” he said. “We had to get an ambulance out of Silsbee and it was 20 minutes or so.”
While waiting for an ambulance, officers on the scene performed CPR on the man, a very exhausting task, he added.
The man, who lived at the Burke Center, has not been identified.
Read more in Thursday’s Beaumont Enterprise.
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