HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — Hancock County is buying lifesaving CPR devices for every one of their area fire departments.

The county has purchased 13 LUCAS CPR devices that can give consistent chest compressions for a patient during ambulance transport. The new LUCAS devices increase the number that the career departments in the county already have and also gets one to the volunteer fire departments who didn’t have one before.

State officials and local leaders including fire chiefs and members of the Hancock County Commission got a firsthand look at the devices during an event held Friday in Greenfield.

Hancock County 911 Director John Jokantas said these new devices are essentially any extra pair of hands that can administer CPR just as well as a person can.

“It allows the responders to no

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