Kevin Kamenetz dies of cardiac arrest; Baltimore County executive and gubernatorial candidate was 60

Baltimore Sun ^ | May 10, 2018 | Doug Donovan and Pamela Wood

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz — a Democratic candidate for governor and a fixture in state and local politics for nearly a quarter-century — died Thursday morning of cardiac arrest, officials said.

Kamenetz, 60, was awakened by chest pains around 2 a.m. Thursday, county officials said. Kamenetz and his wife, Jill, drove less than two miles from their Owings Mills home to the Chestnut Ridge Volunteer Fire Company where the county executive called 911 from the parking lot.

Chestnut Ridge medical personnel escorted Kamenetz and his wife into the station. As Kamenetz was explaining his symptoms, he lost consciousness. Fire station personnel began CPR and used a defibrillator on him three times to restore a pulse before medics arrived.

[Nifster]

Don’t know what state you live in. Here in the north woods we have a fire dept and that’s where the emts are always on duty just like the rest of the crew. No assemblage required

[Chickensoup]

in our woods, there is usually a chief (paid) and a live in (intern) available all day, and a live in at night. The rest of the crew assembles out of the volunteers.

[Nifster]

Up here for folks who don’t go to docs or hospitals and don’t call 911 what happens is they drop their “ dead” friend off at the ER door and leave

[Chickensoup]

Up here for folks who don’t go to docs or hospitals and don’t call 911 what happens is they drop their “ dead” friend off at the ER door and leave

after they wipe the white powder off their noses??

[Nifster]

Precisely