Lifesaving honors presented to Madison County Sheriff’s Office deputies

Being a first responder tin sometimes beryllium a thankless job, but different times, it tin mean nan quality betwixt someone’s life aliases death. Madison County Sheriff Ron Ball understands each excessively good what these men and women tin spell done and decided to admit their efforts pinch a Lifesaving award.

Deputy Cameron Stanford saved a student from choking successful nan lunchroom astatine Sugar Salem Junior High, Deputy Jared Newell performed CPR for a babe successful Sugar City and Lieutenant John Virgin — on pinch respective different deputies and EMS workers — responded connected segment erstwhile a man sewage his ft caught successful a atom elevator auger. But if you inquire immoderate of these guys if they wanted nan award, they would each show you nan aforesaid thing: “It’s conscionable portion of my job.”

Ball feels differently.

“I americium nan 1 that should beryllium capable to admit them and make judge that they get nan nickname that we deliberation they deserve, moreover if they deliberation it’s not that large of a woody aliases that it’s conscionable portion of their job,” Ball said. “I astir had to occurrence 1 of nan guys to get him location to nan ceremony, but that’s each correct because they cognize that’s what they are expected to beryllium doing.“

Deputy Cameron Stanford connected work astatine Sugar Salem Junior High School. | Courtesy Madison County Sheriff’s Office

When Virgin sewage to nan tract of a atom elevator incident first, he knew nan business was bad, and he conscionable automatically started to do what needed to beryllium done.

“I conscionable tried to make judge nan segment was safe. I went and made judge that nan powerfulness was disconnected to nan atom bin and past I trim nan loop to nan auger truthful that we didn’t get anybody other hurt. I went up and talked to nan unfortunate and made judge he knew we were there,” Virgin said.

As each nan different deputies and EMS providers showed up, they instantly sewage to activity and sewage done what needed to get done.

“Once they trim holes successful nan side, past everybody conscionable jumped successful and started shoveling. Whoever was location went in. It was a batch of work. They would spell until they sewage excessively tired and past nan adjacent feline conscionable jumped in. We conscionable support connected pronunciation each different retired for astir 3 1/2 4 hours to get him retired — to get it debased enough,” Virgin said.

But why do these deputies do this? They don’t conscionable aftermath up successful nan greeting and think, “Hey I should spell shovel atom successful a hot, dusty elevator for 3 hours today.”

They do it because it’s their job. They train and hole truthful erstwhile they do get that call, they are ready.

“I don’t deliberation a batch of group cognize nan sacrifices being made. We’re fortunate that we unrecorded wherever we live,” Ball said. “We are called upon astatine people’s worst times. Rarely do we person a telephone telephone because things are going good. It’s usually somebody’s worst time, and you cognize it tin beryllium very bad.”

Deputy Jared Newell, right, is honored by Madison County Sheriff Ron Ball pinch nan Lifesaving grant for providing CPR to a babe successful Sugar City.

But that doesn’t extremity nan deputies from going to nan telephone erstwhile it comes. The deputies person to enactment fresh to grip immoderate situation.

”I’m ever conscionable prepared for it. You don’t really deliberation astir it. I mean you get nan telephone and you conscionable go. You don’t really deliberation astir it until it’s complete and past erstwhile it’s complete you’re like, oof gladsome that’s over,” Virgin said.

That’s why Ball thinks it’s truthful important to make judge that his deputies get these awards and are recognized for not conscionable doing their jobs, but for going supra and beyond and changing personification else’s life, aliases redeeming someone’s foot, aliases keeping personification from choking aliases drowning, moreover if it’s a small awkward for nan lawman to person nan praise.

“I still don’t deliberation it’s complete and beyond. It‘s thing we signed up to do,” Virgin said. “That’s why erstwhile group inquire america why we do it, I show them it’s what we signed up to do. It’s capable of a reward successful itself. It’s conscionable my job.”

These deputies were precocious recognized arsenic Lifesaving grant recipients. | Courtesy Madison County Sheriff’s Office