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Employees of the Year - 2018 <br />La Porte PD Officers <br />Joshua Willhoite, Barrence Rodgers, Sergio Torre <br />On Thursday September 13t" La Porte Dispatch received a call for service regarding <br />capsized boat in Galveston Bay near Hazel Street and two people were in the water. <br />La Porte Police, Fire, and EMS units were dispatched. Officers, Willhoite, Rodgers, <br />and Torre were the first units to locate the boat, which was actually closer to South <br />R Street. <br />Upon arrival, the officers discovered the capsized and adrift vessel and two <br />individuals up against the rocky bank. One male was attempting to get a female, <br />later determined to be his mother, out of the water. The female was unconscious, <br />unresponsive, and her skin had developed a purplish skin tone. The situation was <br />obviously critical, and these officers did not hesitate to take action. <br />They assisted the male with extricating the female from the water onto the steep <br />embankment and immediately began CPR. The officers continued administrating <br />lifesaving actions until the arrival of Fire and EMS units. At that point they shifted <br />their focus to moving the patient to a better location, using a ladder to carry her up <br />an incline to the EMS stretcher. Lifesaving efforts continued throughout this <br />process. <br />Assistant EMS Chief Lisa Camp states, "These officers immediately sprang into action <br />and worked as a team to save the woman's life. Without these lifesaving actions, <br />this female victim would not be alive today." <br />