TAMPA, Fla. - Hillsborough County is equipping about two dozen of its parks with emergency gear in the event of a cardiac emergency.

The county will install 25 AEDs, automated external defibrillators, at 23 parks and sports complexes across the county.

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The American Heart Assocation funded the purchase of 25 AEDs for the Hillsborough County parks and sports complexes.

The first AED has been installed at the Skyway Sports Complex. It will be one of two parks that will have two AEDs onsite, because of its size.

"We're going to focus on putting these AEDs in sports complexes like this one that are very, very busy with thousands of users," Mikah Collins of Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation said. "But, we're also going to put them in our pa

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