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Concerns about long waits for an ambulance in some Eastern Kentucky counties hit home for Jim Dockery’s family after he started having chest pains one evening in August.
His longtime companion, Lisa Gibson Koch, called 9-1-1 and her son, Daniel Koch, rushed to Dockery’s house a few miles away in Magoffin County.
After Dockery lost consciousness, Koch, a corrections officer, performed CPR for more than 20 minutes while waiting for the ambulance, said Koch’s wife, Amber. When the ambulance arrived, Dockery, a 62-year-old former mechanic, had no heartbeat…
