Bouquets to Greta Hall and the other members of the St. Johns County Fire Rescue for its program to teach each of the 3,000 graduating seniors in the St. Johns County schools how to perform hands-only CPR and use an automated external defibrillator. With the help of the American Heart Association, a 45-minute course was developed, and students were given booklets to take home to their friends and family. Firefighters and rescue workers traveled to each high the county’s seven high schools from November 2012 to April to teach the courses. Hall is the department’s coordinator with the American Heart Association Volunteer instructors came from the St. Johns County Fire Rescue, the St. Augustine City Fire Department, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, Orange Park Medical Center and SafetyNet.
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