Shania Twain’s generosity toward firefighters helps save life at concert
The Spokane Fire Department says Shania Twain quietly donated tickets to her concert in Spokane Saturday. If was her way of recognizing the efforts of firefighters battling the state’s wildfires.
This generosity set the stage to save the life of one Twain fan.
(Thanks to Andrew Doyle for sharing this story with STATter911.com.)
During the concert, a fan went into cardiac arrest in the crowd. That is when many of the fire and emergency personnel were notified through the PulsePoint System.
“We had an off duty firefighter paramedic from Station One that was actually starting an IV,” said (Spokane Fire Department’s Brian) Schaeffer . “It would be really impossible to know that anything was going on unless we had the PulsePoint app.”
The app alerts users of any medical emergency and provides a map with the location of emergency personnel. It can be downloaded by anyone, including paramedics and firefighters. Firefighters in the crowd said they likely never would have known the emergency was happening through the loud music and cheering without the app.
Shania Twain donated several tickets to the local fire service and their families for last night’s concert in…
Posted by City of Spokane Fire Department on Sunday, September 13, 2015
@STATter911 @ShaniaTwain @SpokaneFire Dozens of firefighters at the event received this alert on phones. pic.twitter.com/zkg72OaOBA
— PulsePointFoundation (@pulsepoint) September 14, 2015
