WEST UNION, Iowa (KCRG) - First responders and hospitals in Fayette County received new CPR machines as a part of a $500,000.

Wednesday evening a group first responders got a hands-on look at the LUCAS 3.1, an automated chest compression machine.

“We recently had to do CPR on a person for about 55 minutes,” said Cassie Woodson.

Woodson is an EMT and CPR instructor in Westgate, a city of fewer than 200 people.

In a rural county like Fayette, she and other first responders are used to working with only two or three people on life saving emergency response situations.

“If you only have two people, you still got to have somebody doing the airway and possibly doing an IV. And that might eliminate the person that, if you have the machine to do CPR, it gives those other two people the opport

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