Program trains first responders in remote areas – Prince George Citizen

December 3, 2015

Almost 20 years ago, David Alexander was sitting in the back of a car with his brother, hands pressed to the bullet wound through his sibling’s shoulder as they drove off Takla Lake First Nation towards medical care.

“We were two hours away from any hospital,” said Alexander, 47.

He’d been shot from 10 feet away and the wound was about two inches from his heart.

“At first I didn’t know what to do,” Alexander said. “I didn’t have no gloved hands but I just put pressure on both sides of his front and back and basically padded it up. We had to meet the ambulance halfway.