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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) - Funeral arrangements were being plannned Wednesday for a New Jersey fire recruit who died days after he collapsed during a training exercise.
Victor Melillo, 21, was training to become a member of the Irvington Fire Department.
He collapsed last Thursday during a training exercise in the parking lot of the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy in Parsippany Township, officials said. He was treated by EMTs and taken to Morrostiwn Medical Center’s critical care unit.
A firefighter recruit who was following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather died on Tuesday after collapsing during training nearly a week ago.
Victor Melillo, 21, of Irvington, was jogging in the parking lot of the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy in Parsippany around 9:30 a.m. on March 4, New Jersey FMBA president Ed Donnelly told New Jersey 101.5. He was sent to Morristown Medical Center.
Melillo had no known underlying medical condition, according to Donnelly. He was a recruit with FMBA Local 14. It s just one of those tragic accidents. Young kid, way too young. You couldn t ask for better conditions to have some kind of situation, Donnelly said. You had 55 firefighters around him, some were EMT s so they started CPR immediately as he fell and continued CPR to the hospital and they wound up getting a pulse back at the hospital. He was oxygen deprived for just a little too long.
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