A new device is saving lives in rural areas - CBS19.tv KYTX

BULLARD, Texas — The Bullard Volunteer Fire Department has a caller summation to the team-only it’s not a who, it’s a what.

"This LUCAS device is the astir modern one. It’s the LUCAS 3.1...it’s an automatic CPR machine," said Lt. Kaiden Simons with the Bullard Volunteer Fire Department. 

A instrumentality that is captious to redeeming lives particularly successful agrarian communities.

"If we person a telephone heavy retired successful the county, you whitethorn person a 30-45 infinitesimal effect clip up to the infirmary erstwhile the ambulance gets onto the scene," Simons said. 

30-45 minutes that are captious erstwhile trying to prevention a life. Consistent CPR that helps firefighters avoid fatigue and having to rotate, letting them absorption connected different tasks erstwhile trying to prevention a life.

"So this fundamentally takes the occupation of 3 firefighters, truthful 1 with transporting it, it’s a batch easier, you don’t person to person idiosyncratic connected apical of the diligent doing CPR portion trying to load the ambulance," Simons said. "And with fatigue comes little prime compressions and this is conscionable continuous aforesaid prime compressions each the time." 

And with a property of button, these devices person already saved lives successful the field. 

"It was conscionable a cardiac apprehension telephone heavy retired successful the region and we were capable to usage this and it was capable to bash prime compressions each the mode to the hospital," Simons said. 

The unpaid occurrence section was capable to get a assistance from TC Energy to bargain this $17,000 dollar machine.

"I look successful the aboriginal that these benignant of devices can, nary substance what the marque is, to beryllium the golden standard," said Justin Walker, the Bullard Firefighter who applied for the grant. 

This is lone 1 of 2 LUCAS devices immoderate unpaid occurrence section successful Smith County has. Noonday Volunteer Fire Department has the different device.