NLCRPD Officer Walton Honored After Lifesaving CPR in Warwick Township

On the evening of June 3, the Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Department responded to a cardiac arrest in Warwick Township after a neighbor found Warwick High School science teacher Douglas Balmer unresponsive in a driveway; Officer Walton was first on scene and took over CPR. Working with the neighbor, Warwick Community Ambulance crews and more than 15 first responders, they shocked Balmer three times before confirming a pulse and breathing; Balmer later presented each responder a US Mint American Innovation coin honoring Bernard Lown, M.D.