The American Heart Association reports new research has found more people die from heart attacks in the last week of December than any other time of year.
There are steps you can take, though, to better prepared."You need to know where your AED is. We're going to ask you to get the AED and come back," Plano's director of public safety communication, Susan Carr, said.
"We want to hear the caller counting out their compressions so we can make sure they're doing it fast enough and they're doing it at the right pace," Carr said."Whenever I'm in a public place, I'm always looking for where one is. I just want to take note," she said.She knows it can save a life because it saved hers.
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