Life-Saving ‘Fire Department CPR’ App Going National

By: Brian Heaton on July 12, 2011

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A mobile application developed to alert citizen volunteers trained in CPR of emergencies in California’s the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District is spreading nationwide.

The district has created the PulsePoint Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed specifically to distribute its Fire Department CPR notification app to other fire and rescue departments in communities throughout the United States.

Related: Click here to read more about how the "Fire Department CPR" app works.

The app, which was launched in January, provides users within walking distance of someone suffering from sudden cardiac arrest with a message on their iPhone with incident details, the location of where CPR is needed and the site of the nearest publicly-accessible defibrillator. The app also gives notifications of fires and pinpoints where on a map those blazes are occurring.
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