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CPR MANIKINS
DONATION FROM AUTO DEALERS FOUNDATION TO
MIDDLETOWN FIRST AID
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atlantic highlands herald
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MIDDLETOWN, NJ –
The National Automobile Dealers
Charitable Foundation and the New Jersey Coalition
of Automotive Retailers have donated a family of CPR
training manikins – a Resusci-Anne, Junior and Baby
– to Middletown Township in memory of residents lost
during the World Trade Center Tragedy.
| The Township’s all-volunteer Emergency
Services Department, which aided survivors that fled
across the Raritan Bay on September 11, 2001, accepted
the donation during formal ceremonies today. Middletown
lost 37 residents that day, which is the greatest loss
per capita of any community as a result of the terrorist
attacks. |
Members of the National
Auto Dealers Association Charitable Foundation present
three manikins to Mayor Rosemarie Peters and members of
Middletown Emergency Services. |
“We thank the National Automobile Dealers Charitable
Foundation and the local auto retailers for honoring
the memory of Middletown residents who lost their
lives in the World Trade Center tragedy.” Said
Middletown Mayor Rosemarie D. Peters. “The manikins
will allow first-aiders to practice and teach the
administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR) to adults, children and infants.”
A different type of CPR training is required for
adults, children and infants. These CPR units give
signals telling when the trainee is applying the
right pressure in the right spot or breathing
quickly into the victim’s mouth. With the training,
students learn the feel of giving, quick lifesaving
emergency treatment, noted Middletown Emergency
Services Assistant Director Larry Schachtel.
“While our gift of training manikins will not and
can not replace any of those lost on 9-11, it is our
sincere hope that the training provided through
(these manikins) will help keep many other families
intact.” noted Paul Larson, Chairman of NJ CAR and
owner of Larson Ford in Lakewood. Mr. Larson was
joined by Robert J. Maguire, past Chairman of NADA
and owner of the Maguire Automotive Group in
Burlington and Ocean Counties, Robert De Felice,
owner of the Circle Automotive Group in Shrewsbury
and NJ CAR President, James Appleton.
State Senator Joseph Kyrillos noted that there has
been an increase in long-term survivors from
ventricular fibrillation since larger numbers of
Americans began to receive CPR training. CPR
training teaches a person how to keep the heart
beating while professional help is coming.
The donation was made possible through the Nation
Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation. Each year
CPR training manikins are donated to health, civic
and educational organizations nationwide.
Established in 1975, the program has donated more
than 2,200 manikins worth more than $1.5 million.
More than one million people have been trained on
Foundation manikins. The Foundation is part of the
National Automobile Dealers Association. Its
membership includes over 19,000 franchised new car
and truck dealers in the United States.
