CCFR aims to reduce response times for Juneau residents experiencing cardiac arrest

When someone experiences sudden cardiac arrest in Juneau, the average response time for Capital City Fire/Rescue is 9 minutes.

CCFR’s EMS Program Manager Andrew Pantiskas is leading an initiative – involving the help of Juneau community members and an app called PulsePoint – to make the response time faster .

KTOO’s Mike Lane spoke with Pantiskis about this life-saving effort.

Listen: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/09PULSEPOINT.mp3

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Mike Lane: There’s an effort that you’ve been helping to lead to collect the contact information from people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, and to provide training opportunities. Tell me about that.

Andrew Pantiskas: Yeah, so we’re trying to get our cardia