BLOOMING GROVE – Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus is being credited with helping to save a man who was found unresponsive behind the wheel of his vehicle in the Town of Blooming Grove on Thursday.
The county executive was driving by the intersection of Route 17M and Oxford Depot when he came upon a man directing traffic around a car in the middle of the intersection.
An off-duty police officer and two bystanders had stopped to help the man and a call to 911 determined he was probably having a drug overdose.
Neuhaus was told by dispatcher Kelly Lopez to access his Narcan kit.
“911 instructed us to deliver one dose of it. I put the kit together and gave the guy one dose, then 911 instructed us to pull him out of the car. He was having very difficult and shallow breathing. At some points we thought he wasn’t breathing. We pulled him out of the car after we gave him the Narcan and he woke up,” Neuhaus said.
The Good Samaritans asked him if he wanted additional medical treatment. He declined and drove away.
Neuhaus credited county Mental Health Commissioner Darcie Miller with providing him with the training to administer Narcan.
