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Island fire stations will now act become a base for people to learn vital resuscitation skills which could save a heart attack victim's life.

 

Under a national partnership between the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) scheme, all fire stations have received recently took delivery of a BHF-donated Call Push Rescue training kit.

 

It takes just 30 minutes to learn CPR using the Call Push Rescue kit and it’s taught by DVD so there’s no need to organise a trainer.

 

Community groups will be able to contact their local fire station, both full-time and retained, to arrange a time to go to a station, watch the DVD and practice with the kit.

 

Some stations will provide details locally of when people can arrange a visit to take part in the training.

 

Alternatively people can contact their local station or fire officer and arrange a mutually agreeable time to visit.

 

According to the Scottish Government, around 3,500 people in Scotland have an attempted resuscitation each year because they have suffered a cardiac arrest outside of hospital, but only five per cent survive.

 

SFRS assistant chief officer, Dave Boyle, said: “We have a network of fire stations across Scotland and each of them will house a CPR kit.

 

"The training will empower people and give them the skills they need to deliver life-saving assistance to anyone suffering from cardiac arrest.

 

“We are extremely grateful to the British Heart Foundation for providing the CPR kits and we hope this initiative will save hundreds of lives in the weeks, months and years to come.”

 

 

 

Island fire stations offer life-saving skill training to public

 

18 October 2015