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Gen. Mike Minihan, Commander of Air Mobility Command, visits the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station June 8, 2024.

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Be a link in the chain of survival

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  • By Peter Borys
  • 914th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
NIAGARA FALLS AIR RESERVE STATION, N.Y. --  When it comes to training at the NFARS there are no dummies here. Only ones that are used for Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator training.

The 914th Airlift Wing fire emergency services are sponsoring a CPR, AED and Choking course to all military and NFARS civilian employees every month of this fiscal year. Class size is limited to a maximum of 20 people and is held once a month at the base fire station.

The course covers CPR for adult and pediatrics, Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and Choking.

Lt. Lucas Douglas, NFARS Fire Department driver operator and a program administer said,  "This is not a new program, but one that has been going on for years at the base."  He added, "It's been recently that we have been getting more recognition and interest in the course. We have instructors all around the base.  We have them set up at the gym and the Aeromedical Staging Squadron (ASTS), but the fire department has the majority of them.  We also have instructors for the Army and Navy, who conduct classes for their personnel."

Class participants have been giving high marks to this program.

"I feel comfortable now with administering CPR in an emergency situation after this in-depth training," said Mr. Gary Broderick, NFARS Base Communications Security Manager, and one of the individuals who took the most recent class.  "Additionally, we've had the AED in our building for quite a while and now we have individuals qualified to use it in case of an emergency."

Douglas added that anyone who takes the course at the base will receive a Heartsaver CPR AED qualification card.

"Based with the class knowledge participants can go home and pass that information onto their families," said Douglas. "The family members won't get a qualification card, but the more people who know how to perform CPR AED the better chance of saving a life."

Base personnel wishing to register for the class can do so by e-mailing the NFARS fire department at: 914msg.cef@us.af.mil .

Be a link in the chain of survival.