MARSHALL, Ill. (WCIA) -- It's National Farm Safety and Health Week, and farmers in one Central Illinois city learned life-saving skills.

On Tuesday, farmers in Marshall took a break from the fields to learn how to keep themselves, and others, safe.

Clark County Farm Bureau, Clark County Ambulance Service, and Country Financial teamed up to host "Tourniquet in Every Tractor." Their goal was to give tourniquets to farmers for each piece of equipment they have and show them how to use one.

"Well, you know, guys never think that something's going to happen on the farm," the President at the Clark County Farm Bureau, John Yieley, said.

And that's why an event like the one they helped host is so important. The ambulance service said that it came out of a necessity.

"We saw an area that need

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