Madison County's 9 fire departments receive automated emergency defibrillators

MARSHALL - Madison County has been awarded 27 automated external defibrillators, as revealed in the Madison County Board of Commissioners April 9 meeting. In that meeting, Dillon Cantrell, an assistant chief with Laurel Volunteer Fire Department, provided the Board of Commissioners with updates from emergency management and the 911 call center. According to Cantrell, the AEDs were provided by Madison Medics in partnership with RACE-CARS, a seven-year trial led by a team of researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute in partnership with participating EMS agencies, hospitals, 911-dispatch, fire, rescue,...