Kenmore resident donates new defibrillator to Northshore Fire Department

Pictured from left: Firefighters Tim Osgood, Joe Heilman, Brian Gilbert, Lt. Jim Harvey, Margaret Harmon, firefighters Jeremiah Ingersoll, Tim Wooldridge, Deputy Chief Jim Torpin and firefighter Jeremy Jamerson. Harmon donated a new defibrillator to the Northshore Fire Department. - Courtesy photo
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Pictured from left: Firefighters Tim Osgood, Joe Heilman, Brian Gilbert, Lt. Jim Harvey, Margaret Harmon, firefighters Jeremiah Ingersoll, Tim Wooldridge, Deputy Chief Jim Torpin and firefighter Jeremy Jamerson. Harmon donated a new defibrillator to the Northshore Fire Department.

December 7, 2011 · 3:56 PM

Margaret Harmon of Kenmore recently donated a new automatic external defibrillator (AED) to the Northshore Fire Department.

Harmon recently retired from Physio Control in Redmond after working there for 30 years. Physio Control is a manufacturer of defibrillator units and has a program that provides a new AED to retiring employees to donate to the agency or charity of their choice.

AEDs are used to provide an electrical shock to the heart, typically following a heart attack or similar event in order to re-establish a normal heart rhythm. The unit will be placed in the new headquarters fire station in Kenmore, located at 7220 N.E. 181st St.

“We have citizens come in periodically with heart-related problems”, said Deputy Chief Jim Torpin, “This will provide us immediate access to life saving technology right in the lobby of the fire station.”

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