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An 18-year-old Lorain teen is recovering in a hospital thanks in part to the quick action of a Lorain police officer.“I wasn't even worried about getting the who, what, when, where, why. I was so focused on stopping the bleeding because he was bleeding pretty badly.”https://www.morningjournal.com/news/lorain-county/lorain-police-officer-helps-save-life/article_2760ffc4-fcda-11e9-b07f-2783e20bcbc1.html …

“It was very chaotic, the young man was very scared, so we were running around trying to do whatever we could to help him out,” Fink said.Fink started applying combat gauze to the gunshot wound which helps with blood clotting. This quick thinking would become a lifesaving decision.https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/21/20925117/chicago-police-officers-firefighters-saved-life-teen-shooting-victim?fbclid=IwAR28rkZaQ2TyR3Ia6FW9Pshn8ELrsJQqlBgbcbGE4rpq1-O-Cy8i11QSf4k …

"The Schuyler Police Department recently received a surprise that is meant to assist officers when out in the community.The Back the Blue Auxiliary made a sizable donation of tourniquets to SPD, as well as several other area law enforcement agencies. Schuyler Police Chief K.C. Bang said his officers have yet to use any of the tourniquets, adding he hopes they never have to. But, he stressed, the department was super appreciative of Back the Blue and all of the work it does."Read More:   …

A dentist donated life-saving equipment to a local sheriff’s office on Tuesday. Dr. Dave Templeton supplied the Scott County Sheriff’s Office with combat application tourniquets and carrying cases.The donation will allow every deputy and school resource officer to have the life-saving items with them at all times.Read More:  https://www.wjhl.com/local/doctor-donates-tourniqu... …

A tourniquet had been sitting in Chicago Police Officer David DeLeon’s vest since he finished police academy two years ago.He was finally forced to use it — and to call on his training — earlier this week to help save a 15-year-old boy at the scene of a South Side shooting.“The more you do it, it’ll help you stay calm,” a collected DeLeon said Thursday outside CPD headquarters. “I didn’t think of it. It just happened so fast.”Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-police-o... …

"Miraculously, the patient was conscious and in stable condition after the traumatic incident, likely due to the swift actions of a Hillsboro Police Officer on the scene who applied a tourniquet and managed the patient’s care before paramedics arrived,"Read More:  https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Workers-Arm-Se...

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) - As awful as the images were and as hard as it will be for Officer Blaine Middlecoff with Jonesboro police to forget about that day, at the time he said it was all a blur.His years of military and police experience, along with Stop the Bleeding training, kicked in right when he needed it most.Read more: http://www.kait8.com/story/38173660/officer-grabs... …

Alliance PD’s Range Allows Citizens to Train Like the Men in BluePhotos by Taylor Elizabeth PhotographyOne wouldn’t expect to find one of America’s best police training facilities in a tiny town of 22,000, serving a police department of 40 officers. One also might be surprised to learn this training facility consists of not just a pistol range, but also a 330-yard rifle range, a huge live-fire shoot house, demolitions range, facilities for quick-mounting real doors onto dedicated frames for brea …

HELENA, Ala. (WIAT) — Around four o’clock on Sunday afternoon on Hwy. 17 in Helena, police say a black F-150 suddenly swerved off the highway and was involved in a single vehicle accident. Investigators say it went down an embankment, crashed through a fence and came to rest about 75 yards out in a pasture.http://wiat.com/2016/03/14/newly-issued-tourniquet...

Today’s Monday Morning Carry incorporates elements of what one individual carries on his person and in his vehicle. Although the latter might not technically fall into what some people might define as EDC (much of it is clearly not what you’d find in a “pocket dump”), we find such arguments trivial and pedantic.Read more: http://www.recoilweb.com/usamps-pride-101281.html#ixzz4CQnxnQ51