No One At the Fire Board Meeting Knew Where an AED Was

Really, no one knew where an AED was?

If the LMRFD consolidates it will just add more government. When people at the last fire meeting asked about volunteers, we were told they had looked. Everyone at the meeting said they didn't look in Dolan. 

I understand the LMRFD was broke, but Mr Flynn said it costs $165,000 to add a firefighter. CORRECTION It costs$165,000 to fund a shift of three firefighters.

The LMRFD is big 144 sm's, the LMRFD nonprofit ambulance covers over 2000 sm's. Without volunteers there is no way to cover the 144 sm fire district for fires, and certainly no way to cover the 2000 ms ambulance area.

We need local control. When I asked where the AED's (Automatic External Defibrillator)  were in the Dolan Area, no one knew. There might be one at the library. The current management donated 6 AED's to Kingman schools. They were only valued at $200 for trade in, but we could have used them in Dolan.

New AED's cost $1200 to $5000, it costs $100 to $300 each to replace batteries and pads. It still costs $1200 up for AEDs, and we don't have $7000 to buy new AEDs.

Dolan depends on tourist. We should have AEDs at the Community Center, gas station, both civic clubs, and both restaurants.

You need to apply an AED within 6 minutes. If it's not on the wall ready to go, chance of survival is slim. By the time you call 911, and they dispatch someone it usually takes 3 minutes or so. You do the math, you only have 6 minutes.

The worst review Dolan Springs can get is, my husband died 2 blocks from the fire station in Dolan Springs because no one knew where an AED was.

No one in Kingman is going to care about the little things in Dolan, only people from Dolan know what we need.