TOWNSHEND — Rescue Inc. recently received a $9,943 grant from the Fanny Holt Ames & and Edna Louise Holt Fund.
The money was used to fund installation of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in Leland & Gray Union High and Middle School and the elementary schools in Jamaica, Marlboro, Newfane, Townshend, Wardsboro, and Windham.
Each of these Windham Central Supervisory Union schools received an AED unit and training for selected staff members in the unit's proper use from Rescue Inc.
Rescue Inc. is in the process of getting AEDs into more school and community sites around its service area and expanding training in CPR and first aid skills to community members.
Studies have shown that when a person goes into sudden cardiac arrest, there is about a four-minute window of survival before the onset of irreversible brain damage. The sooner CPR is applied, the greater the victim's chance for survival.