Police officers from several agencies helped to rescue a man who was having a medical emergency at Allaire State Park, Wall Township, on the evening of Sept. 22.
In a release, Howell police said that at 6:45 p.m., officers from the Howell Police Department, the Wall Township Police Department and the New Jersey State Park Police rescued a man who was having a medical emergency in the woods on Allaire State Park’s property across from Blewett’s Junk Yard on Herbertsville Road in Howell.
Police reported that the 48-year-old man from Colts Neck sustained the medical emergency as he was riding a bicycle on a trail while in the company of two friends. The man’s companions called 911 and reported that their friend might be having a heart attack. Police were dispatched to the scene.
Howell Sgt. Michael Popek and patrolmen Ryan Lowe and Ray Tillotson arrived at the scene within minutes and began searching the woods. The officers were carrying first aid equipment with them.
The area to be searched was “massive,” according to police, and required dispatchers to coordinate with the responding officers and to use a Global Positioning System to help direct the officers to the man’s location.
As the officers were searching the woods and trying to find the individuals who had called police, a young male bicyclist located the officers and escorted them to the patient’s location.
Officers from Wall Township and the state park police had just located the patient and his companions as the Howell officers arrived.
The patient was carried several hundred feet to a trail where a brush truck from Howell’s Ramtown Fire Company was waiting. The brush truck transported the patient to a Howell police ambulance that had responded to the scene.
The patient was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, for treatment.
On the morning of Sept, 25, Howell police said there was no additional information available about the patient.
