BIDDEFORD — A Biddeford Public Safety dispatcher took a call about a male who was unconscious and not breathing at the Biddeford Post Office Thursday, according to the Biddeford Police Department’s Facebook page.
As the dispatcher was giving CPR instructions to the person who called, and off-duty BPD dispatcher walked into the post office. She started administering CPR until emergency personnel arrived.
The man was transported to Southern Maine Health Care, and because there had purposeful signs of life, he was transferred to Maine Medical Center in Portland.
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