{"id":6929,"date":"2020-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2020-06-15T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:30:26","slug":"john-p-careccia-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=6929","title":{"rendered":"John P. Careccia, Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/John_Careccia..png?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><\/p><p>John P. Careccia \u2013 a Chief and Training Director at Woodbridge Township Ambulance &amp; Rescue Squad, Woodbridge, New Jersey \u2013 passed away on 17 April 2020 due to COVID-19,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decided to pursue a career in Emergency Medical Care in 1993 after seeing what 2 emergency responders did to save my son,&#8221; Careccia said in a 2015 interview with CPR Headquarters, where he also contributed as a columnist. &#8220;I decided then and there that I would pay it forward. I became a volunteer EMT in 1993 and started teaching CPR in 1994. I realized early on that I was able to teach others how to apply life saving techniques effectively especially when it came to using CPR to save lives. I developed a unique approach to teaching CPR more from a practical rather than technical application.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firehouse.com\/safety-health\/news\/21134549\/nj-ems-chief-dies-from-covid19-complications\">: Firehouse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?page_id=303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please help us in adding details.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John P. Careccia \u2013 a Chief and Training Director at Woodbridge Township Ambulance &amp; Rescue Squad, Woodbridge, New Jersey \u2013 passed away on 17 April 2020 due to COVID-19, &#8220;I decided to pursue a career in Emergency Medical Care in 1993 after seeing what 2 emergency responders did to save my son,&#8221; Careccia said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[48,7019,15],"tags":[7157,1051,114,5746,113,792,6710,193,6709,7156,6224,4107,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/John_Careccia..png?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9641,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9641","url_meta":{"origin":6929,"position":0},"title":"Richard Kesner, Nurse","date":"April 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Richard Kesner \u2013 a Nurse at CareOne at The Highlands, Edison, New Jersey \u2013 passed away on 27 April\u00a02020\u00a0after suffering from COVID-19. 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