Starke County first responders had an emergency of their own after running out of Narcan to assist in five apparent heroin overdose cases in a six-hour span on Saturday.
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According to the Starke County Sheriff’s Office, a heroin overdose was called into the dispatch center on Saturday at 9:20 a.m. Two men were found after responders had to breach a door in order to get inside to tend to them. One was found unconscious on the floor and another on a bed inside the home in the 400 E. block of 200 S. Starke County medics were able to revive the man on the floor using heroin antidote, Narcan.
Officers with the Knox City Police Department, Starke County Sheriff’s Office and Starke County EMS were called out later that afternoon where two men and a juvenile female apparently overdosed on heroin. Police say CPR was administered and Narcan was used to revive the overdose victims.
Starke Hospital employees also had two separate cases of heroin overdoses reported in the Emergency Room, according to the report.
Starke County medics were sent to La Porte County to retrieve another eight doses of Narcan in order to have it ready for any additional calls.
Starke County Sheriff Bill Dulin said several arrests were made following these calls. The incidents remain under investigation.
