Crime & Safety
Danvers Police Officer Credited With Saving Man's Life
Officer Ryan Greene helped pull a man from a swimming pool and began CPR on Thursday night.
DANVERS, MA -- Danvers Police Officer Ryan Greene is being credited with helping save the life of a 73-year-old man pulled from a swimming pool on Seneca Drive Thursday night. Greene responded to the 5:30 pm call of an unconscious man in a pool. He helped pull the man, who is believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest, from the pool and began administering CPR.
"It was an outstanding effort by the officer that was there," Police Chief Patrick Ambrose told the Salem News, which first reported this story. The man was transported to Beverly Hospital, where Ambrose believed he was in stable condition.
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