Lumberton firefighters have a new way to perform CPR - a machine that is 95 percent more effective than manual CPR. The 17-pound LUCAS Chest Compression System is the first of its kind in Hardin and ...

Fire Chief Jackie Brockman, left, and Assistant Chief Spenser Hunter of the Amity Volunteer Fire Department demonstrate how the LUCAS CPR device works. The piece of equipment provides consistent, ...

Deb Ross of Rapid City might have died without life-saving equipment, including an automated CPR machine called a Lucas 3 device, that first responders used after she suffered a cardiorespiratory ...

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- West Metro Fire Rescue is training with the newest member of their life-saving team -- Lucas. No, that's not a person – it's a device. The LUCAS machine is a chest ...

NORWICH - Just days after putting a new automated CPR machine – the first in Norwich - into service, Taftville Fire Department members were called on to use the device. “On Monday, less than a week ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - A father of two who collapsed while camping in Lakewood is thankful to be alive today thanks to life-saving CPR from his wife and technology. On May 12, Ted Amidon was at Bear ...

Nearly $1,000 was raised during the London-Maybee-Raisinville Fire Department’s April 5 fundraiser at Little Brown Jug in Maybee. The LUCAS Automatic CPR machine is shown. Provided by Mark Manor The ...

The Johnston Fire Department has a new way to help save your life.A CPR machine that automatically delivers life-saving compressions is now part of the department's tools.For a patient in cardiac ...

Two years after creating a business plan with marker and construction paper, 11-year-old Lucas Vetter has raised $112,000 to purchase life-saving CPR machines for local fire departments. When Lucas ...

PRAIRIETOWN — Thanks to a pair of firemen from the Prairietown Fire Department and an auto CPR compression machine from an Alton Memorial Hospital ambulance, Randy Luttrell was able to survive a ...