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Springfield fire chief urges hands-only CPR after city data shows low bystander intervention
Summary
Fire Chief Jacob King presented 2025 cardiac-arrest data on the city’s Chief Chat, saying Springfield saw 103 cardiac arrests with an overall survival of about 8.7% and that only about 25% of witnessed arrests received bystander CPR; he announced a goal to raise that rate to 40% through outreach and training.
Jacob King, Springfield fire chief, used the department’s Chief Chat podcast to press residents to learn and perform hands-only CPR after the department’s 2025 review found low bystander intervention and correspondingly low survival rates.
“We had 103 different cardiac arrests. 51 of those were witnessed and 28 of them were witnessed by a first responder,” King said, adding that the city’s overall survival rate from those incidents was about 8.7%. He said just about 25% of witnessed arrests locally received bystander CPR, compared with a national bystander-CPR rate of roughly 60 to 65 percent.
King and Police Chief Allison Elliot framed…
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