I don't know if any of you heard the news story about an off-duty EMT who was struck by a car while aiding the victim of a spin-out accident in Albany, near Berkeley, California.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...18/crash18.DTL

Scott Lofgren was a friend of mine and a fellow Burning Man attendee. He was a campmate at our "Thermal Shock" camp at Burning Man.

His memorial service was held this past Saturday, and I'm very glad I was able to attend and participate.

I related that Scott typically worked the night shift and had been up all night running calls. In the morning he came into camp exhausted and crashed out on a cot.

We got a call that there was a kid having a seizure in a nearby camp. We loaded into vehicles. Scott, on maybe 3 hours of sleep, dragged himself up, grabbed his gear, and was first-in on the call. In a couple of minutes he had brought the kid out of the seizure and into full consciousness.

I thanked Scott on behalf of that kid and all the other people he's rescued over the years who couldn't be at the service to thank him themselves.

http://pics.livejournal.com/kshandra/gallery/0000bpte