Fire Chief Jackie Brockman, left, and Assistant Chief Spenser Hunter of the Amity Volunteer Fire Department demonstrate how the LUCAS CPR device works. The piece of equipment provides consistent, ...

Each year the New City Ambulance Corps holds a fund drive seeking donations from the community, and last year when President Carol Ackerman wrote a letter detailing a new piece of equipment the hoped ...

From very young ages, nearly all of us hear about CPR, and maybe even CPR training — learning how to keep someone’s heart beating after they have a heart attack or other cardiac event that causes the ...

PRAIRIETOWN — Thanks to a pair of firemen from the Prairietown Fire Department and an auto CPR compression machine from an Alton Memorial Hospital ambulance, Randy Luttrell was able to survive a ...

HUBER HEIGHTS —The Huber Heights Fire Division is the first department in Montgomery County to own and utilize an automated chest compression machine, which officials said provides more consistent ...

VOLUNTOWN — The Voluntown Volunteer Fire Company is one of the few departments in the region with a new CPR machine to automate the chest compression process. Assistant Fire Chief Art Ivanick said the ...

EAST RUTHERFORD — Pressing on the chest of a person who is in cardiac arrest can save their life — but only if it's done quickly and correctly. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, better known as CPR, is a ...

TOWNSEND — A person was in cardiac arrest, and first responders knew they had to act fast. In a situation where most would pair up and switch off between chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths, ...

HOLMDEL, NJ — Just before the start of the holiday season, the Holmdel police department and Holmdel First Aid Squad revealed their newest life-saving equipment: the Lucas 3.1 Chest Compression System ...

Microgravity makes it tricky to do simple tasks like eating, using the toilet and showering, so it is no wonder that performing CPR on someone whose heart stops beating in space is an extremely ...

TOWNSEND – A person was in cardiac arrest, and first responders knew they had to act fast. In a situation where most would pair up and switch off between chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths, ...