VILLAGERS are celebrating after the success of a major community project to get life-saving defibrillators installed.
The latest of eight defibrillators, which can deliver a resuscitating electric shock to someone suffering cardiac arrest, will be put in at Ingleton shortly – little more than a year since the Save A Life initiative started.
About 130 volunteers in the village have been trained to use the defibrillators, with the next sessions on February 18 and March 17 at Ingleborough Community Centre.
Cash to pay for the machines has been raised by donations and funding from the The British Heart Foundation, The Harold and Alice Bridges Foundation and SADS UK, the charity for Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome.
The most recent of Ingleton's defibrillators has been installed in the village square and is under the 'guardianship' of staff at Inglesport Climbing and Caving Shop, who are doing weekly checks to make sure it is in working order.
Project co-ordinator Laraine Sullivan, a former nurse who leads the training sessions, said it was "fantastic how enthusiastically villagers have backed the scheme".
She added: "They have really taken 'ownership' of it and given great support to the project right from the start."
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