Off-duty paramedic honoured after rescuing injured police officer during snowstorm
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What started as a quick run to the grocery store turned into a heroic moment for one Simcoe County paramedic when he was off duty earlier this year.
What started as a quick run to the grocery store turned into a heroic moment for one Simcoe County paramedic when he was off duty earlier this year.
Geoff D’Eon says he was on his way to the grocery store on Jan. 13, hoping to get some much-needed food provisions during a snowstorm.
He says and his wife waited for a break in the weather before heading out but says it quickly changed.
“While we were out on our way home, we came across an accident on Horseshoe Valley Road, right on the downslope of the hill by right by Country Lane. I noticed that there was a pickup truck with a trailer jackknifed across the road,” D’Eon recalls.
The paramedic of 14-years started to approach the accident to offer help and saw a police car with its lights on, but the officer was nowhere in sight.
“Once I got around the vehicles that were stopped, I saw the OPP officer lying in the middle of the road. So when I approached him, I identified myself as a paramedic, and he looked up at me and said, buddy, I have hurt myself really bad,” D’Eon recalls.
He says the officer told him he had slipped on the ice while responding to the accident.
But D’Eon did not have much time to assess the situation before he noticed another car sliding down the hill, hitting cars as it went.
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