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ELECTRIC TIMES
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VOLUME 28, NUMBER 5 www.TheElectricTimes.com
FEBRUARY
2021
IBEW Local 570 apprentice makes CPR save on neighbor
Alan M. Petrillo
Electric Times
Bryan Kyte, an apprentice with International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(IBEW) Local 570, was able to put his cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) training
to practical use when he was confronted
with a situation where a neighbor’s wife
was not breathing.
The 35-year-old Kyte was working for
McDade-Woodcock in Douglas, Ariz., putting
in conduit for the U.S. border wall’s
lighting and sensor systems. On the day of
the incident, Kyte was off work and had
several people from his apprenticeship class
at his house, finishing up a study group for
a test they were scheduled to take.
“Everyone had left except Adrian
Aguilar and Molly Berning-O’Neill,” Kyte
said, “and we were out front talking when
my neighbor came running over shouting to
call 911 because his phone was dead and his
wife wasn’t breathing. Another neighbor
With Arizona COVID-19 immunizations proceeding,
essential workers may see vaccine action soon
Arizona continues its effort to get the
COVID-19 vaccine into as many individuals
as possible through a network of more
than 200 vaccination sites statewide,
including 45 Community Health Centers.
Groups prioritized to receive the vaccine
to date include front line healthcare workers
, emergency services workers, and residents
and staff at long term care facilities,
in Phase 1A. The Centers for Disease Control
’s Advisory Council on Immunization
Practices (ACIP) had recommended those
classes of workers to be the first immunized
.
The ACIP defines healthcare workers as
paid and unpaid persons serving in healthcare
settings who have the potential for
director or indirect exposure to patients or
called 911, and I ran across the street, followed
by Adrian, and told my neighbor that
I knew CPR, so he directed me to a bedroom
at back of the house.”
Kyte said that on entering the bedroom,
he saw a woman in her late 40s or early 50s
sitting up in bed with her back against headboard
“She was blue, so I could tell she was not
in good shape,” Kyte said.
Kyte noted that he had had undergone
CPR training several times, but never had to
use it.
“I never saw someone like that and my
first thought was she was deceased,” he
said. “I thought that I have got to do something
, if for nothing else for the husband’s
piece of mind. So I went around to her side
of the bed and started doing chest compressions
with her sitting up. When foam started
coming out of her mouth, Adrian, who
was behind me, said we should turn her on
See ‘Apprentice’ page 6
infectious materials. For Phase 1A, that
includes individuals providing patient care
in settings such as hospitals, long term care
facilities, emergency medical services, outpatient
clinics, home health care, pharmacies
, public health, and education, such as
school nurses and healthcare personnel.
In January, the state opened up COVID-
19 vaccinations to Prioritized 1B individuals
, which includes law enforcement and
protective services personnel, K-12 school
staff and child care workers, and individuals
age 75 and older. Also that month, Maricopa
County began taking registrations for
persons age 65 and older to receive the vaccine
at either State Farm Stadium or
Phoenix Municipal Stadium, and within a
day had booked all appointment availability
through the end of February.
Populations eligible for the vaccine later
Bryan Kyte, left, and Adrian Aguilar
in Phase 1B in Maricopa County include
adults living in congregate settings, and
essential workers not already eligible for
vaccination inn the in the Prioritized Phase
1B group. The Maricopa County website
lists those persons as power and utility
workers, food and agriculture related occupations
, transportation and moving material
occupations, state and local government
workers providing critical services, and
other essential workers.
Phase 1C in Maricopa County is expected
to include additional adults 65 and older,
and adults of any age with high risk medical
conditions. Phase 2 is expected to run
from the spring through the summer and
include any remaining Phase 1 populations,
additional high risk/critical populations,
and the general population. Phase 3 is
scheduled for the summer and beyond, for
Inside
any remaining phase 1 or 2 populations,
and the general population.
The state also activated the CDC’s Retail
Pharmacy Program, which added up to 100
pharmacy stores providing vaccine in late
January and early February. When the program
is fully activated, the state expects that
more than 800 pharmacies will have
COVID-19 vaccine available in Arizona.
Jill Hanks, media spokesperson for Arizona
Public Service (APS), said that as the
state firms up its vaccination distribution
plans, “APS has been working with the Arizona
Department of Health Services , county
health departments, and other Arizona
utilities to support and prepare, including
providing reliable power to vaccination
locations within our service territory.”
Hanks noted that, “We expect a vaccine
See ‘Vaccine’ page 6
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