CHANNAHON – Channahon police officers and firefighters were recognized at Monday’s Village Board meeting for their efforts in two separate incidents, one of which contributed to saving a life and the other of which located a resident lost in the woods.

Officers Ed Bischoff and Mike Yoakum were first responders at the scene of a suspected heroin overdose recently. Bischoff told trustees the male victim was unconscious, not breathing and had a bluish tint to his skin by the time he arrived.

Bischoff said he administered more than one dose of the opioid antidote Narcan to the man until Channahon Fire Protection District firefighters and paramedics arrived to transport the man to a hospital. The man started coming around in the ambulance, Bischoff said, and by the time he arrived at the hospital, they knew he was going to make it.

“Everybody did great,” Firefighter and paramedic Tyler Yost said. “It was a great effort.”

Channahon Village President Missey Moorman Schumacher said the incident was the result of the two emergency services working together as a team.

“You saved a life,” she said. “It doesn’t get any better than that.”

In addition to Bischoff, Yoakum and Yost receiving recognition for the incident, so did fire district Lt. Ryan Jandura and firefighters and paramedics Jason Hartman, Jeremy Wilson and Zachary Toepper.

The other recognitions of the evening went to a resident, Anthony Kellogg, Channahon police officers Mike Klett and Justin Bennett and other officers, and several firefighters and paramedics.

Channahon Chief of Police Jeff Wold said Kellogg had pulled over in his car to check on an elderly woman parked in a car by herself near Front and Fryer streets.

She had no cellphone with her and told Kellogg that she was worried about her husband, who had gone into the brush a couple of hours ago to look for his wallet, which he believed he had lost while searching for mushrooms the day before.

By then, night had fallen and the temperature was dropping. Kellogg called the police, and Klett responded. The officer called the woman’s husband on his cellphone, and he said he was lost in the woods in the backwaters of the Des Plaines River. The brush was too thick to travel through, he told Klett, and he had no flashlight.

Other officers worked with Klett and Bennett to find the resident, as did several firefighters and paramedics in the Channahon fire district, which had been contacted to assist with its boat.

Klett and Bennett, in the end, found the man and brought him to safety, reuniting him with his wife.

At the meeting, Klett, Bennett and Officer Brad Bucciarelli received recognition, as did firefighters and paramedics Toepper, Wilson, Terrance O’Hern, Adam Hughes, Scott Schneider and Brett Proctor, as well as Fire Chief John Petrakis, Deputy Chief Jeff Toepper and lieutenants Jandura and Matt Skole.

Kellogg also received recognition for what one officer called, “an unselfish act to help out a complete stranger,” noticing something amiss and acting on it, notifying the police and staying with the missing man’s wife throughout the search.

“We appreciate your actions and your concern of strangers,” Schumacher said.