Buenos Aires WCT Fatality 2015

At approximately 0800 hours on June 6, 2015, a 31-year-old Student Conservation Association (SCA) employee Ian Haxton, Veteran Fire Corps crewmember, collapsed 200 yards from the finish line while participating in the Wildland Firefighter Work Capacity Test. Medical care was immediately rendered by on-site, local EMS including the utilization of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). The individual was loaded in the Ambulance, which had been staged on-site for the test, within 5 minutes of his collapse and transported to an Advanced Care Facility. Despite medical intervention, Haxton passed away.

Training, Medical Emergency, Health and Fitness, Medical or Exertion or Heat