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Five Snohomish and Island county residents will be awarded later this month for bravery.
All five helped save lives and will be honored at the Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Conference in Seattle.
Mikayla Whitley, 11, of Marysville will be honored for helping to save Michael Wyant.
Wyant was rock climbing with friends when he injured his leg. The two friends went for help, and Wyant got on his hand-held radio and called for assistance.
The person who heard him was Mikayla. She was sitting on her porch playing with a low-range radio when she heard the call for help.
She informed her mother, who notified the sheriff’s office. Mikayla spent the rest of the afternoon relaying information between Michael and his rescuers.
Margaret Marian of Arlington, Dan Krewson of Camano Island and John Edwards of Granite Falls will be honored for saving Ed Petrin, a co-worker at Bayliner Yachts/U.S. Marine.
The three recognized that Petrin had suffered a heart attack and immediately put their emergency response team training into practice, performing CPR for more than 10 minutes until paramedics arrived.
The final local person to be honored is Ron Thorp of Langley. He was visiting a friend at an Everett motel when he heard a cry for help. He ran and found two men shaking a 2-year-old girl who had stopped breathing.
The girl had been found floating face down in the pool. Thorp and one of the motel’s housekeepers administered CPR and revived the child. The housekeeper was not identified.
The five will be honored at the 50th Industrial Safety and Health Conference Sept. 26 and 27 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. As many as 4,000 people are expected.
In all, 19 people will be given lifesaving awards. Another 23 will receive humanitarian awards.
The conference, which dates back to 1949, is co-sponsored by the Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Advisory Board and the Department of Labor and Industries.
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