Prior to transport, the young man became alert and was able to speak. The Fire Captain and firefighters performed CPR until the air ambulance arrived. Applying the machine to the young man’s chest, a shock was advised. The firefighters acted quickly, using their training and experience with the Automated External Defibrillator (AED). When the worker dropped to the ground, his coworkers called 911 and started CPR.Īrriving within minutes from the call were Fire Captain Young and his incarcerated firefighters. While carrying a metal pole, he accidentally hit a live electrical wire. The civilian was working just outside of Leavitt Lake on a construction site in mid-August. Hitting a live wire, worker was electrocuted Having spent two years living in England including Liverpool, he is an avid Beatles fan and memorabilia collector.When a civilian working at a construction site was electrocuted, the first to respond were incarcerated firefighters from the Firehouse at California Correctional Center (CCC) and High Desert State Prison (HDSP). He also teamed up with reporter Joe Nelson in 2019 on Bad Apples, an award winning investigation that exposed years of sex abuse cover up in the Redlands Unified School District. Scott was part of the OC Register’s investigative team that in 2017 produced the year-long, award winning Rehab Riviera series, examining problems in Southern California’s drug rehabilitation industry. He has also accompanied police on undercover drug buys and also provided an award winning, eyewitness account of the execution of a North Carolina death row inmate. Scott has also worked at newspapers in Utah, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia covering everything from methamphetamine trafficking cops to hurricanes. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he was previously a breaking news and multimedia reporter for the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner.

“The fire was just one of those fluke things.”Ĭontact the writer: 71 Schwebke is an investigative reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. “We have new bikes and rode them Monday,” said Lisa Vondran, adding she is extremely pleased by the company’s response. The Electric Bike Company has also replaced the Vondrans’ bikes. “It could have happened to anybody, but it happened to us.”Īs a result of the incident, the president of Electric Bike Company expedited a trip Monday to China to meet with the battery’s manufacturer, he added. “It was a one-in-a-million thing,” Anderson said. The fire was likely caused by an isolated assembly problem with the bike’s battery management system, a computer chip that regulates voltage, Bob Anderson, sales manager for the Electric Bike Company said Tuesday.

The Vondrans were not injured and Newport Beach firefighters used dry chemicals to extinguish the blaze, said Mike Halphide, lifeguard battalion chief for the Newport Beach Fire Department. “I was wanting to put out the fire but I didn’t have anything to use.” “We were both mesmerized,” Steve Vondran said. “We literally didn’t have any money to buy any water,” Lisa Vondran said, adding she had to reach out to friends and family for money and a passport.

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