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Resident urges county parks to add public AED enclosures after on‑trail cardiac arrest
Summary
A Carmichael resident told the commission about surviving a cardiac arrest while guiding a river trip and urged the county to consider installing publicly accessible AED enclosures in county parks that dispatchers can unlock via 911.
During the meeting’s non‑agenda public comment period, resident Joe Ellis described surviving a cardiac arrest two years ago while guiding a river trip near Coloma and urged Sacramento County to explore wider installation of publicly accessible automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in park facilities.
Ellis said he was saved by carrying a personal…
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