Hoylake Lifeboat Station haa installed a community defibrillator in order to save more lives at sea and in the local area.
According to the British Heart Foundation there are more than 30,000 cardiac arrests outside of hospital each year in the UK.
Defibrillators send a high energy electric shock to the heart through the chest wall and are an essential life-saving step to give a casualty the very best chance of survival.
The new defibrillator at the Station. Picture: RNLI/Hoylake
The new device at the RNLI Station is portable and accessible 24 hours a day by ringing 999 to gain the access code.
Station coxswain Andy Dodd said: "We’re really pleased to be able to host this new community facility and we want everyone to know this defibrillator is here for public use in case of emergency."
The volunteer crew at Hoylake Lifeboat Station would like to thank North West Ambulance Service community resuscitation development officer Nick Blair for supplying the device.
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