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True Stories
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A Matter of Life, Thanks to SureFire
Most of us have been in emergency situations that were a matter of life or death. Read how SureFire helped tip the balance in these exciting tales.
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I was a volunteer EMT/Extrication technician for a rescue squad in Virginia. One night, I was called out to a major car accident on a back road in the mountains. We arrived on scene to find a car over an embankment, wrapped around a tree. It was dark and raining very hard, and our scene lights couldn't reach down the steep hill. So I un-holstered my E2D Executive Defender® and went to work.
I quickly made my way down the slick slope using my Defender as a guide, holding it in my mouth as I grasped for sticks and trees to keep myself from falling. When I reached the car, I discovered one occupant in the front seat, totally unconscious. In the pitch- black, soaking-wet, muddy conditions, I stripped off my coat and made my way into the car through the back window, only to find my patient was not only unconscious, but also not breathing.
Long story short, I managed to intubate the victim inside the wrecked car with only the light from my SureFire E2D Defender, which I held in my mouth the whole time. All my buddies on the fire department always rag me about carrying a $100 flashlight, but it certainly was worth its weight in gold on that night.
Jason D
Chapel Hill, NC
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