Walz orders flags at half-staff in honor of paramedic who died on duty
By FOX 9 Staff
Toby Rowan, a paramedic, suffered a medical incident at the scene of a call and passed away.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Governor Tim Walz is ordering flags to be flown at half-staff at federal and state government buildings on Thursday in honor of a Minnesota paramedic who died while on duty last week.
Toby Rowan was responding to a medical call when he collapsed at the scene and later passed away, according to the Mille Lacs County Sheriff s Office. Rowan worked as a paramedic for the Mille Lacs Health System in Onamia and Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby.
Minnesota Paramedic Died in the Line of Duty
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Crosby, MN (KROC-AM News) - A procession of law enforcement and emergency vehicles from across Minnesota participated in a procession Thursday evening that accompanied the hearse transporting the body of a central Minnesota paramedic who died in the line of duty Wednesday night.
Officials in Mille Lacs County say 47-year-old Toby Rowan, who served as a paramedic for the Mille Lacs Health System in Onamia, collapsed after he and other emergency responders were called to the scene of a medical emergency. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful and both Rowan and the original patient died.
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Patient and paramedic die following medical call
While assisting with the medical call, one of the paramedics began to feel weak and dizzy and collapsed while on the scene and became unresponsive, the Mille Lacs County Sheriff s Office reported.
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ISLE Both a patient and a paramedic died Wednesday, Jan. 6, in separate occurrences during a 911 medical emergency call at a residence in Isle.
The Mille Lacs County Sheriff s Office reported emergency responders were dispatched at 11:39 p.m. to a medical emergency at a residence on the 3200 block of Vista Road in Isle. Deputies and emergency personnel from Mille Lacs Health System attempted life saving measures on the patient, but were unsuccessful. The 58-year-old Isle resident was pronounced dead at the scene.
State Patrol: Speeding driver fatally strikes woman in gas station parking lot near Mille Lacs Lake
The woman was leaving the store when she was struck.
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Per the crash report:
A 69-year-old Isle, Minnesota, woman was driving a Chevy Silverado just before 6:30 p.m. at a high rate of speed through the Super Stop parking lot off of Highway 169 in South Harbor Township, Mille Lacs County, when she struck a woman who was leaving the store.
The victim, 72-year-old Gloria M. Rosekrans, of Brainerd, suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene, the State Patrol said.
The driver and two 12-year-old children who were in the Silverado all sustained non-critical injuries and were taken to Mille Lacs Health System in Onamia for care.