Tag: CPR

Fr33 Aid at the 11th Annual Porcupine Freedom Festival

Porcfest XI Another successful year for Porcfest and Fr33 Aid with the attendance estimated to have reached over 2,000 individuals. Fr33 Aid was busy this year taking care of all the injuries and illnesses presented to us. Fr33 Aid is made possible by your generous donations and we would like to thank everyone who donated …

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PorcFest Here We Come!

Fr33 Aid is gearing up for another great PorcFest this week. Organizers estimate 2000+ participants for this year’s festival, and we will be there to help with all the usual support and a few new things too. Once again, we’ll be located at RV site #2 at the top of Agora Valley and can be reached …

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PorcFest X: Fr33 Aid Reports

The Fr33 Aid team supported another great PorcFest this year. Sixteen volunteers took shifts at Fr33 Aid’s booth to provide first aid as needed to PorcFest participants, including a lifeguard who met us at the festival and jumped right in to help. Among the Fr33 Aid volunteers at PorcFest, there were 2 paramedics, 3 EMTs, …

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Allergic to Statism: Fr33 Aid at PorcFest 2012

The Fr33 Aid team had a great time at PorcFest 2012. Leading up to the event, super PorcFest organizer Sharon Osborne agreed that we could keep the same, centrally-located site for our booth in Agora Valley as we had last year. This year was less stressful on the organizing side, as we have most of …

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Liberty Forum 2012: Fun and Roses for the Fr33 Aid Team

The Fr33 Aid team had a great time at Liberty Forum. There were no injuries, and that’s the way we like it. Among the 500+ participants at this year’s Liberty Forum, we met several people who are interested in volunteering with us, including a nurse who had recently moved to New Hampshire and an EMT …

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The Checkup checks up on your CPR skills for Valentine’s Day!

Fr33 Hearts is our CPR awareness program. We’ve given over 300 quizzes so far at events last year.  We enjoyed meeting so many people and finding that they knew more about CPR than they thought! For taking the quiz at our booth, they got a Fr33 Hearts button to show their awareness. If you haven’t …

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Fr33 Aid Featured by Liberty on Tour

Our friends at Liberty on Tour interviewed Fr33 Aid organizers Garland, Teresa and Stephanie at PorcFest. Check out their video:

CPR and defibrillation: What YOU can do to save a life

Fr33 Hearts CPR Awareness Icon

Heart disease is the number one killer of both women and men, and cardiac arrest can strike kids as well as adults. Most of the time, there are no prior symptoms when someone collapses from a cardiac arrest. With each minute that passes until a shock can be delivered, a person’s chance of survival decreases by …

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