Assateague Rangers Earn Valor Awards

ASSATEAGUE- Two Assateague State Park Rangers last week were awarded Valor Awards for their heroic actions in potentially saving the life of a camper in the state park last October.

Around 9:20 p.m. on October 26, Assateague State Park Rangers Adam Stachowiak and Meghan Sochowski responded to a call for a camper in distress. The rangers quickly arrived at the campsite from which the call originated and found an unresponsive female patient lying face down in the upper bed of a small camper.

The victim’s boyfriend told the rangers she was diabetic and that she had last eaten around 6:30 p.m., or three hours earlier, but he was not certain when, or even if, she had taken her last insulin shot. Stachowiak and Sochowski called 911 to get an ambulance in route, but soon learned they would have to act on their own to begin treating the unresponsive woman. According to a letter from Assateague State Park Manager Angela Baldwin requesting honors be bestowed on the two park rangers, there was a problem initially with the response time for the ambulance.

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