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Last month, in the middle of downtown Seoul, a man in his 50s suddenly collapsed from cardiac arrest.
It was an urgent situation, but a fire pump truck loaded with first aid equipment saved a life.
Shin Jeong-eun is a reporter.
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On the night of the 12th of last month, when the temperature dropped to minus 11 degrees Celsius, a man in his 50s suddenly collapsed in the middle of the road.
A state of 'cardiac arrest' in which there is no consciousness and no pulse.
One by one, the citizens wave the man and take off his overcoat to check his condition.
He waved his arms vigorously toward the approaching car to announce his location.
It was not an ambulance that arrived at the scene.
It is a 'fire pump vehicle' mobilized for fire suppression, a so-called 'pump ambulance' that combines a pump car and an ambulance 'ambulance'.
[Lee Geun-se / Firefighters on the spot at the time: Coincidentally, the ambulances in our response team all went out to other places.
When a cardiac arrest patient is reported to the 119 Situation Room, the nearest pump car is dispatched...
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About 3 minutes after the firefighters got off the vehicle and gave first aid, such as CPR, the pulse gradually returned.
This 'pumpbulance' is filling the void in emergency dispatches caused by frequent ambulance operations due to the transport of corona patients.
Currently, there are 119 pumbulances in Seoul.
We were able to save precious lives by citizens who did not pass through the emergency and the action of the pumbulance.
[A man in his 50s who was rescued at the time: When the doctor said, 'Everything was bad, but the initial response was very good'.
If they had reported it right away and hadn't taken action right away, this call would not have been possible.]