Mobile Fire-Rescue Saves Life At Parade

Quick action by Mobile Fire-Rescue teams Monday night saved the life of a fifty year old man at the beginning of the Mardi Gras parade route.
The man suffered cardiac arrest about 90 minutes before the Infant Mystics parade.
Captain Shaun Hicks with Mobile Fire-Rescue said, "We had a 'witness' cardiac arrest. Police officers were on the scene."
The man had suddenly collapsed against a barricade.
Hicks said, "Fortunately, there were some off-duty firemen that were working the parade detail as far as pulling floats. They responded and began CPR on the individual until our bike teams and our rescue truck could arrive about four minutes later."
The bike teams are specially equipped.
Hicks said, "All of our bike teams have AED's, automatic external defibrillators, and our rescue truck that arrived on the scene had a cardiac monitor with special capability, and they were able to resuscitate the patient."
You see members of the fire-rescue teams in front of and behind the barricades, but why are some on bikes?
Hicks said, "We're able to put the bike teams on the inside of the parade route where its barricaded off. We get them on the scene anywhere from two to four minutes fairly quickly."
Fire officials have not released the man's name, but they said he is hospitalized in critical, but stable condition at Springhill Medical Center.