The Zachary Fire Department has acquired four new high-tech LUCAS CPR devices for $20,750 each, WAFB.com reported.

The devices provide mechanical chest compressions to patients suffering from cardiac arrest.

A fire official said once the device is put on the patient the compressions are going to be continually given at the proper rate, according to the report.

The equipment is already in place, and firefighters are already trained on how to use the devices out in the community, the report said.

VIDEO: The smoke detectors woke up Gina Harris around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. There was a smell of smoke in her unit. She called 911 when she couldn’t get the detectors to stop. Soon, she was standing in the street watching part of her condo complex burn. Dallas Fire-Rescue said the fire at Parkway Quarter Condominiums, off the Dallas North Tollway between Keller Springs and Arapaho, was out by 5 a.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas

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- PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fire Engineering

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- PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRCB-TV NBC 3 Chattanooga

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- PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVNS-TV CBS/FOX/MyNetworkTV 59 Lewisburg