Four weeks after it was vandalised and put out of round-the-clock action, the defibrillator is back in place in Stone High Street.
Stone’s AED Donate worked with Stone Lions and the families of Dr Barry Farnham and Mark Symonds, who both died in 2013 from heart attacks, to get the defibrillator unit installed in the High Street last year.
It’s a life-saving piece of kit, available to use 24 hours a day, but for the last four weeks it’s had to be stored in the Co-op supermarket – with access to it reduced – because of the actions of the person/s who vandalised it.
From today, however, it’s back on the High Street again after being fixed by a local company.
[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” ]Jamie Richards, project director at AED Donate, said: “It’s fantastic to have the defibrillator back live on the High Street today for 24/7 public use. We’d like to say a massive thank you to Xtraweld Services Limited in Stone for fixing the defibrillator cabinet for us. And we’d also like to thank everyone for sharing our Facebook post appealing for information when the cabinet was vandalised in September. The post reached over 50,000 people and had over 500 shares.”[/box]
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