Boater Having Medical Emergency Rescued

Members of the Chattanooga Fire Department, including our off-duty operations chief, assisted someone having a medical emergency on the water over the Fourth of July weekend. Squad 19, Fire Boat 2, Battalion 2 and Battalion 3 (Red Shift) were dispatched to Lake Resort Drive on Monday and learned that CPR was underway on someone on a boat. Crews worked diligently to locate the boaters experiencing the emergency. Dallas Bay and TWRA also responded to help find the boat and the patient, as did CFD Operations Chief Rick Boatwright was in the area on his personal boat. Chief Boatwright radioed in that he had a visual on the boat and was riding alongside of it to aid them to the marina. The patient was removed from the boat, placed on a stretcher on the shore and taken to the hospital by HCEMS. We hope the patient is doing well and thank everyone who assisted during this incident.