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West Linn honors two police officers for life‑saving CPR responses
Summary
The council recognized Officer Hayden Eckmayer and Officer Matthew Goode with life‑saving awards for CPR/AED interventions in September that staff and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue said directly contributed to patient survival.
At its Nov. 12 meeting, the West Linn City Council recognized two police officers with life‑saving awards for CPR and AED responses that staff said helped save lives.
Deputy Chief Patrick Fayol of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue described a “chain of survival” program in which police officers respond to cardiac arrests to start hands‑only CPR and apply AEDs before fire crews arrive. Fayol told the council that the partnership helped raise neurologically intact survival rates in his service area to about 45 percent for witnessed cardiac arrests, compared with a substantially lower national average.
Chief [West Linn Police Department] introduced Officer Hayden Eckmayer and Officer Matthew Goode. According to the city’s presentation, Eckmayer responded on Sept. 4 to a 911 call for a woman found unconscious in a bathtub, began CPR within three minutes of dispatch, assisted Valley Fire and Rescue personnel in moving the patient and continued compressions until she began breathing; staff reported the woman recovered and was present in the audience. Goode was credited for a Sept. 11 response involving an unresponsive 2‑year‑old child; Goode began CPR and continued compressions until TVF&R arrived and the child later stabilized in hospital care.
Council and staff thanked the officers and TVF&R for their work; the council paused briefly after the honors before continuing the agenda.
