KEWASKUM, Wisconsin — Two Kewaskum Police Department officers were honored with Life Saving Awards after a CPR and AED response helped restore a resident’s pulse, according to GM Today / Washington County Daily News reporting.

The report identified the officers as Aaron Roth and Michael Wheeler. It said Chief Tom Bishop recently presented the awards to the officers for their response to an unresponsive resident who was not breathing.

CPR, an AED and fast decisions

According to the report, Roth and Wheeler responded to the call on March 30, 2026. They began CPR and used an automated external defibrillator, helping restore the patient’s pulse before fire personnel arrived and transported the patient to the hospital.

“Their quick, decisive actions gave this individual a chance at survival and reflect the highest standards of service,” the Kewaskum Police Department said, according to GM Today.

The department also commended both officers for “outstanding, life-saving efforts,” the report said.

GM Today described the Kewaskum Police Department’s Life Saving Award as a recognition for heroic, direct action in saving a human life, including critical interventions such as CPR, AED use or Narcan administration.

A reminder of the first minutes

For Support Law Enforcement readers, this is the kind of call that rarely becomes a national headline but matters deeply to a family and a town. Before the ambulance transport, before the hospital, and before any award photo, there were two officers making the first minutes count.

ThinBlueNews is treating this as an officer-recognition and lifesaving-response story. The article does not name the patient, does not add medical details beyond the public report, and attributes the key facts to GM Today and the Kewaskum Police Department announcement cited there.

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Editorial note: ThinBlueNews used a real source photo credited to GM Today / Kewaskum Police Department and added headline/source labeling. No staged or AI-generated rescue imagery was used.