Blairstown Township Police

By Sam Barron From Daily Voice

Quick thinking cops used a tourniquet to help save a man's life in Blairstown authorities announced Monday, Oct. 27.

On Wednesday, Oct. 22, Sergeant Jonathan Bee and Officer Orlando Lisboa responded to a residence on Walnut Valley Road for a man with a laceration to his arm he received from a hunting knife while cutting boxes, Blairstown police said.

Upon arrival, officers observed a significant blood loss and he was still actively bleeding, police said. Officers applied a tourniquet and were able to control the bleeding, police said.

The man was transported to a nearby hospital where the staff credited the officers' quick action in saving his life, police said.