MCLEAN COUNTY (25News Now) – A new medical device has helped day-to-day functions for a local fire chief.
Eric Fulk, the chief of the Mt. Hope-Funks Grove Fire Protection District, said he had been fighting sleep apnea for a long time before being introduced to a new device called Inspire Therapy, which he got implanted in 2022.
Before, he had a continuous positive airway pressure, or C-PAP machine, a bulky device with lots of tubes that can be high maintenance for his job, which requires a lot of movement…