Couple died while husband was trying to revive wife

Charles Lorme, 61, apparently died trying to save his wife with CPR last Wednesday. Firefighters found him on top of his wife, Geraldine Lorme, 59, in their house in the tiny town of Joyce on the Olympic Peninsula.


Firefighters had responded to a 911 call of a CPR in progress about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday. The husband called 911 and told the dispatcher that his wife had collapsed, wasn't breathing and had no pulse. He also said he was starting CPR.

With the dispatcher still on the phone, the call went silent.

Rescuers broke into the house and found the man slumped over the woman, indicating the man had been trying to perform CPR on his wife. They then tried unsuccessfully to revive the couple, but it was to no avail.

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