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Quick response saves Canadian heart attack victim B y P a t G r u bb A 68-year-old Tsawwassen man can count himself lucky to be alive after suffering a heart attack just seconds after being cleared through U.S. customs at Point Roberts on Sunday, August 14 about 2:15 p.m. After cycling up the 56th Street hill with his wife, the man’s heart went into ventricular fibrillation. CBP officers saw him fall from his bicycle and, along with his wife, who is a nurse, immediately began administering CPR to him. Ventricular fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) in which unsynchronized heart signals cause the lower heart chambers to twitch uselessly. As a result, the heart doesn’t pump blood to the rest of the body. Ventricular fibrillation is an emergency that requires immediate medical attention and is the most frequent cause of sudden cardiac death. Local emergency medical technicians from the Point Roberts fire department arrived on scene at 2:23 p.m., just five minutes after receiving the dispatch call and took over treatment of the man who had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. EMTs administered two shocks using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) at which point his heart started beating and he began breathing again. Care was taken over upon the arrival of the county’s Medic 45, which carried Point Roberts fire chief Christopher Carleton (who is also a trained paramedic). The patient was then intubated with a breathing tube prior to the arrival of the Airlift Northwest helicopter approximately 1015 minutes after Medic 45 had arrived. He was then flown to PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham. The man was subsequently discharged from the ICU and transferred to the cardiac care unit, according to chief Carleton. His name cannot be released without his permission. His experience is eerily similar to that of Canadian Jim Graham who also collapsed at the border after riding a bike up the 56th Street hill on June 7, 2015. CBP (See Heart attack, page 3)
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s Among the attractions at the Point Roberts fire department’s annual open house on August 20 was Airlift Northwest’s medevac helicopter. Fire chief Christopher Carleton (in red) was one of the emergency medical personnel who saved the life of a cyclist on August 14. Photo by Louise Mugar
Over 350,000 applicants waiting for interviews B y P a t G r u bb Conditionally approved Nexus members who re-applied for membership before their card’s expiry date will now have a five-year grace period to complete their interview and receive a new card. That also applies to new applicants although they will not enjoy Nexus benefits until they actually receive a card allowing them to use the Nexus lanes. The previous grace period was two years. Applicants might need that grace period. Most enrollment centers in the U.S. show no open interview slots until well into 2023 and some show no slots open between now and 2030. According to
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CBP spokesperson Jason Givens, “Trusted Traveler Programs (Global Entry, SENTRI, NEXUS, FAST) are currently experiencing unprecedented increased numbers of application submissions. For example, in July 2022, CBP received an average of 11,500 new and renewal applications every day. These events have created an extensive processing and interview backlog that CBP continues to diligently work hard to reduce.” According to Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) spokesperson Rebecca Purdy, there are currently 339,887 Nexus and 10,698 FAST applicants waiting for an interview as of August 9. Canadian enroll-
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