First responders seeing more overdoses from fentanyl: firefighter union
WINNIPEG — First responders are dealing with overdoses every day in what has become a fentanyl crisis in Manitoba’s capital, the head of the city’s firefighters union said Wednesday.
“Where before a paramedic would go to one or two overdoses a year, now we’re seeing firefighter-paramedics attending to overdoses every single day,” Alex Forrest of the United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg said.
“Our guys and girls are going out to these calls and going to these events, and sometimes we have two or three individuals that we’re reviving that are on the verge of cardiac arrest because of the fentanyl use.”
Forrest’s remarks came hours after two women and one man were found dead inside a home in a residential neighbourhood in the city’s northwest. A white powder was found inside the home.