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News Release
Paramedics Reunite with Patient after Life-Saving Actions - 03/05/21

On Saturday, March 6, firefighters and paramedics will have the opportunity to reunite with a woman that they helped in saving her life. The crews who responded to the medical emergency will reunite with Ruth Cortes, and her family at Hilltop Station 16, 19340 Molalla Ave., Oregon City at 4:00 p.m. Crews were dispatched on Sept. 19, 2020 to a home of a woman who was suffering a severe hemorrhage. Upon arrival, crews learned the woman was 18 weeks pregnant.

If it weren’t for the quick response and life-saving actions of paramedics, Cortes and her baby may not have survived. As first responders know all too well, initial life-saving measures are provided and the continuance of care is transferred over to the doctor at a local emergency room, and that’s where the interaction ends. First responders rarely learn the outcome of their patients.

But, Cortes and her baby, who was recently discharged from the NICU, will have the chance to thank firefighters and paramedics from Engine 317 and Medic 316 for their actions they took to save her life.

This event is closed to the public, but opened to members of the media.

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