HODGEMAN COUNTY – A rural Hodgeman County woman is recovering from a serious accident this week. The quick work of the Hodgeman County Sheriff’s Office and other first responders saved her life.

The woman in her 60s, according to Sheriff Jared Walker, fell and impaled her arm on the metal rod of boot scraper.

Her husband called 911 and a Hodgeman County dispatcher instructed him to temporarily use his belt on the wound. It did slow the bleeding until help could drive the fourteen miles to their rural southwest Hodgeman County home.

When Undersheriff Jeff Channell arrived, he quickly applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.

“When I came, we didn’t have much medical equipment in our vehicles,” said Walker. “We added first aid kits and about three weeks ago included tourniquets,” he said.

First responders transported the woman to a hospital for treatment.

“They were going to keep her hospitalized for a couple of days,” said Walker. “Without the quick work by everyone involved, the woman might not have survived.”